Good Food, Bad Waste

Key Selling Points

• Food waste is a major problem around the world, even while 900 million people are suffering from hunger. Food insecurity affects millions of children, including 1 in 6 kids in Canada and the United States.
• When we throw out food, it contributes to global warming. Up to 10 percent of greenhouse gas emissions are related to food waste.
• Most of the waste occurs in our homes, which means there are actionable things that kids can do in their own homes to make an impact.
• The content ties in with curriculum guidelines for middle-grade kids, especially as it relates to the environment, interrelationships between humans and the natural world, our impact on the planet and how kids can affect positive change.
• Issues around food waste are regularly in the news cycle. In 2021, the US House of Representatives released a plan on how to mitigate climate change, which included how to reduce the country’s $161 billion food-waste footprint.
• Features profiles of food-waste activists, such as a sustainable cattle farmer, an urban fruit picker, the CEO of a sustainable waste-management company and even young activists who are working to solve this issue.