Best of Earth911 Podcast: Imperfect Foods’ Maddy Rotman on Eliminating Food Waste

Best of Earth911 Podcast: Imperfect Foods’ Maddy Rotman on Eliminating Food Waste

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Maddy Rotman, head of Sustainability at Imperfect Foods, a delivery service for sustainably sourced produce and packaged food that will in any other case find yourself in landfills as meals waste, joins the dialog to search out an finish to one of many largest sources of simply prevented greenhouse fuel emissions. More than a 3rd of the meals people develop annually goes unused. Project Drawdown estimates that we might scale back CO2 emissions by 90 to 101 gigatons yearly just by chopping out 50% to 75% of food waste. She explains how the much less enticing produce that grocers gained’t promote can save buyers cash whereas lowering their diet’s carbon footprint.

Maddy Rotman, head of Sustainability at Imperfect Foods
Maddy Rotman, head of Sustainability at Imperfect Foods, is our visitor on Sustainability in Your Ear.

Maddy explains how Imperfect Foods is tackling its personal environmental impression. The firm is constructing its personal distribution system, utilizing native vans and drivers who observe common weekly routes to scale back the emissions related to deliveries. By following deliberate routes, they’ll use much less vitality than on-demand shippers that ship anyplace, day by day. Imperfect Foods plans to have a completely electric delivery fleet by 2027, and will probably be staffed by full-time staff with advantages.

You can be taught extra about Imperfect Foods at imperfectfoods.com.

This podcast initially aired on June 1, 2022.