“Consumers toss out vastly more pounds of food than we do packaging—about six times as much.”
I read that on the Freakonomics Blog, in a post by James McWilliams arguing that we should embrace a small amount of plastic food waste.
It’s an article about priorities, which, in my opinion, makes it both important and frustrating, because, yes, food waste is a big problem, and, no, plastic packaging is not a small problem that we should save for later. Plus, “waste is an inevitable outcome of production” - another quote from the same article - is not a statement I’m willing to accept.
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