Thanks Joseff. It's important to link food waste and GHG. Reducing the former can lower the latter. I think the impact on GHG could be even greater though. One huge source of GHG that isn't mentioned above - nor in the Project Drawdown calcs as far as I can tell - is fugitive methane emissions from landfills. This is a HUGE contributor to GHG, especially given methane's much more potent warming effect. Almost all that methane emanating from landfill (trash dumps) is due to food ending up in garbage.
That's such a great point. Whenever I'm thinking about the shale gas boom, fugitive emissions come to mind as severe (and hard to measure) increases in GHG in to the transition to natural gas. If not included in Project Drawdown, that could be a significant multiplier effect here!
Thanks Joseff. It's important to link food waste and GHG. Reducing the former can lower the latter. I think the impact on GHG could be even greater though. One huge source of GHG that isn't mentioned above - nor in the Project Drawdown calcs as far as I can tell - is fugitive methane emissions from landfills. This is a HUGE contributor to GHG, especially given methane's much more potent warming effect. Almost all that methane emanating from landfill (trash dumps) is due to food ending up in garbage.
That's such a great point. Whenever I'm thinking about the shale gas boom, fugitive emissions come to mind as severe (and hard to measure) increases in GHG in to the transition to natural gas. If not included in Project Drawdown, that could be a significant multiplier effect here!