A growing number of Bay Area shops are taking steps to reduce their food waste footprint, in an effort to preserve the planet and their profits.
, which connects businesses to consumers to sell surplus food at a reduced cost, helping lower the impacts of food waste on the environment.
"Food waste accounts for 10% of all greenhouse gas emissions. For context, flight travel only accounts for 1%," Soteroff told KPIX. "It is one of our strongest," she said."A million meals in just one city – it shows how much people are looking for opportunities to think differently about the waste that they are producing."
"I just like at the end of the day that we haven't wasted anything. It just doesn't feel good to know that something that could have been eaten or consumed by somebody just goes into the trash," said Kelly Jertberg, the company's wholesale manager."We're able to profit from something that would have otherwise been in the landfill," she said.
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