Truth In Recycling

  • Posted on 7 June 2021
  • By Simone Kuhfal
The vast majority of people are being intentionally misled when it comes to recycling and don’t seem to know that most of what we recycle actually ends up in a landfill or the ocean. Senate Bill 343 has been introduced to reduce consumer misinformation about which plastics are recyclable by building on California’s “Truth in Environmental Advertising” law.
 

SB 1383 Tackling Hunger, Waste and Climate

  • Posted on 1 February 2021
  • By Dr. Jim Stewart & Hoiyin Ip
Nearly one in four Californians suffer from food insecurity. 
 
Yet more than 11 billion pounds of edible food is wasted every year in California.  
 
Organic waste, including food waste, decomposes in landfills releasing methane emissions that account for 20% of the state’s methane. Methane is a short-lived climate super pollutant 84 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Reducing methane has the fastest impact on the climate crisis. 
 

Food Waste, Food Insecurity, Climate and Equity

  • Posted on 3 December 2020
  • By Simone Kuhfal

This holiday season, do your part and take the necessary steps to reduce your food waste.

“In the United States, food waste is estimated at between 30–40 percent of the food supply,” as stated by the FDA. Although, even before the pandemic, twenty percent of the people in “the OC” went to bed hungry. Now, food insecurity is daily news.