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Food Waste

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“Feeding the 5000” takes place on 10/7. “Feeding the 5000” is a global one-day-only food festival designed to educate the public on the problem of food waste and to raise awareness around food and sustainability policy.  We’ll learn how this program uses recovered food  as a means to address food insecurity in Maine. We’ll also discuss the rise in efforts to collect organics for composting at schools and businesses and how this points to a better end for leftover food than landfill/incinerator.

Guests:  Sarah Lakeman, Sustainable Maine Proj. Dir, Natural Resources Council of Maine

Jim Hanna, executive director of the Cumberland County Food Security Council

Thomas Twist, Sustainability Manager, Bates College

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