'Downtown Brooklyn dumpster-diving tour shows the face of food waste'

'Downtown Brooklyn dumpster-diving tour shows the face of food waste'
03:20 Dec 16, 2023
'Four million tons of waste end up in landfills every year in New York City. Almost a third of that is food waste and commercial businesses contribute a significant amount.   Former Spanish teacher Janet Kalish, who has been the face of freeganism in New York for more than a decade, digs into a black garbage bag, taking out what she says is good food that never should have been put in the trash.' 

Tags: New York , brooklyn , Business , donate , zero waste , waste , garbage , Food Waste , dumpster , Good Samaritan , downtown brooklyn , Bill de Blasio , landfills , freegans , dumpster-diving , dumpster-divers , zero by thirty , Eric Adams , Janet Kalish , Court Street

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