https://apnews.com/article/food-waste-climate-change-waste-pickers-961bb5db3c93ec8cf95ca26b02cdb764
Along Capentes’ route, 50-year-old resident Vilma Mendoza now understands the importance of diverting organic waste from landfills to reduce methane emissions to try to limit future warming. The world needs better systems for dealing with waste because existing ways are contributing to climate change, said Kait Siegel, the waste sector manager on the methane pollution prevention team at the environmental nonprofit Clean Air Task Force. She said organics diversion and treatment is “absolutely” an important way to reduce methane emissions.“We’ve seen these solutions make a difference in countries around the world,” she said. “We’re all creating organic waste in our day-to-day lives.
Grate, who is based in Manila, said there are challenges in establishing these systems in new places. It costs money upfront to set up a facility for composting, residents and local officials have to be educated on the importance of separating waste, bins have to be provided for households that can’t afford more than one, and sometimes it’s just not a priority.
The projection on Twitter will never cease to amaze me. This is amazing news! When did doing nice things for nature become a hot take? Unreal
Your ass contributes to climate change.
Wake up suckers!
Let's try not to freak out too much, 'life' contributes to climate change.
😂 what a waste of time