silence7 OP t1_iscft7c wrote on October 14, 2022 at 10:05 PM

Reply to comment by Kagahami in Inside the Global Effort to Keep Perfectly Good Food Out of the Dump | Around the world, lawmakers and entrepreneurs are taking steps to tackle two of humanity’s most pressing problems: hunger and climate change. by silence7

In terms of climate, when food is grown, but then wasted, you've also burned fossil fuels to make fertilizer and transport the food, as well as possibly emitted methane during the growing of the food and its decomposition in a landfill. So waste reduction can have some real knock-on benefits in addition to feeding people, and be a part of how we lower overall emissions