Clip of the Week: “Waste Not: Sustainable Living in NYC”

With the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) declaring Food Recovery as its theme for last week’s Earth Day, we’re highlighting a new MNN special, “Waste Not: Sustainable Living in NYC” as our Clip of the Week.

While one billion people in the world go hungry, one-third of edible food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted annually. Globally, that amounts to 1.3 billion tons of food each year. 40% of food produced in the U.S. (or 33 million tons) never gets eaten.

In 2014, 48.1 million Americans lived in food insecure households. In New York City, 1.4 million residents yearly rely on emergency food programs, including soup kitchens and food pantries.

Learn what’s being done in New York to combat these statistics, including the Hell’s Kitchen Farm Project, which provides fresh food to the food insecure in an urban environment, a look at freeganism in action in Rockaway Beach, and a NYC food rescue organization that diverts leftover food from restaurants and catering halls from landfills to hungry New Yorkers.