In a VR journey let’s follow the life of a “roll of bread”, from the day is baked to the day it is disposed.
The USDA’s Economic Research Service estimates that in the United States alone food waste is estimated at between 30-40 percent of the food supply. In 2010 this corresponded to the staggering amounts of 133 billion pounds and $161 billion worth of food. The rest of the world if following suit.
Food waste has far-reaching impacts on climate change:
- A ton of food that could have helped feed families in need is sent to landfills.
- Food needs energy to be produced, refrigerated and cooked
- Meat is the food that produces the most green gases
- The land, water, labor, energy used in producing, processing, transporting, preparing, storing, etc generate impacts on the environment that do endanger the planet.
- Food waste, quickly generates methane, helping to make landfills the third largest source of methane in the United States.
By experiencing the food waste in VR people will hopefully learn to be more conscious of the problem and will start act differently.
