Here's a graphic showing these solutions.
And I don't expect you to be able to read this, but
what you can see from it is that the bars that are the tallest are the ones where
you get the biggest economic value per ton.
And the ones that are the widest, which are basically almost flat across
the bottom, are the ones where you keep the most food out of the landfill.
And the darkest blue ones are focused on prevention.
These are some of the ones that have the greatest economic value per ton.
So these are changes that don't take a lot of money to implement, and
they could really make a difference in terms of preventing waste.
So those are at the top of the list.
The green is recovery.
They're not incredibly cost effective, and they don't divert tremendous amounts of
food either, based on the productions of what can be done.
But that doesn't mean they're less valuable.
The human impact of that can be tremendous in the public benefit.
So just because they don't come out at the top on either criterion doesn't mean
they're not really important.
And then, finally, the recycling ones like municipal composting and things like that.
They're incredibly expensive, but they are the ones that have the greatest
potential to keep the most food out of the landfill, and
that's why their bars are so very wide.