That food rotting in landfills, because it isn't decomposing with the help of oxygen, is creating millions of tons of methane gas, which scientists say is more than 20 times as harmful as carbon dioxide to our atmosphere.This isn't just food from individual households obviously. So much is wasted from restaurants, grocery stores, and other food establishments. Home composting will help, but there has to be something done at an institutional level.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Methane footprint?
Move over carbon footprint, how about methane footprint? Jonathan Bloom talks about how the food we throw away is causing environmental harm (quoted in this article):
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ReplyDeleteTake care, Ryan
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