To the editor:
April 7 kicked off the week and on 4/21 Friday, the nonpartisan Leelanau CROWD (Composting, Recycling & Organic Waste Diversion) will be hosting a panel about the work going on in our community.
Our CROWD meeting & panel venue will be at the lower level of the Leelanau Government Center 1 to 3 p.m. Attendees will learn from Food Rescue, 5loaves-2Fish, and SEEDS.
Leelanau CROWD seeks to support individual choices about waste management and support community scaled solutions for organic waste.
Michigan landfills more than 2 billion lbs. of food each year.
The state’s targeted goal is to cut food waste in half by 2030. Land filled food is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions.
Food waste is a solvable problem using the EPA Wasted Food Scale here’s the Link. https:// www. epa. gov/ sustainable- management- food/ wasted-food- scale Preventing food from going to waste is the best, beneficial option on the Wasted Food Scale. When food is wasted, all the resources that went into producing, processing, distributing, and preparing that food are wasted too.
The non-profit “ReFED’s Roadmap to 2030” Reducing Food Waste outlines more key actions to achieve Michigan’s and U.S. food waste reduction goals.
In the U.S. an estimated one third (30 -40%)of all food produced by farmers is wasted.
The U.S. Government has set a 50% food waste reduction goal that aims to cut the amount of food waste in the retail, food service, and residential sectors. Get ready hospitals and restaurants. Robert M. LaPorte, M.D. Elmwood Township
