The makers of the world’s best blender have created a device aimed at reducing food waste-and by “reducing” I mean literally making smaller. Not knowing how to assess or prepare a food is another factor for example, the USDA notes that “lack of consumer knowledge of when a papaya is ripe, how to prepare it, and how to use it as an ingredient are reasons for high papaya loss.” And then there’s confusion over “use by” and “sell before” dates, leading many consumers to throw out perfectly edible food before it spoils. So many of our kitchen routines add to this national mass of uneaten food, including trimming the crusts off of your kid’s sandwich because she’s a picky eater (what the USDA terms “human aversion”), tossing out an apple because it’s developed a big bruise in the fridge (“consumer demand for high cosmetic standards”), and cooking more food than anyone needs for the holidays. Sure, you might have switched to reusable straws out of concern for poor sea turtles and stopped flushing wet wipes because you saw those horrifying photos of fatbergs on Twitter, but you probably still contribute to the devastation of our planet in plenty of quotidian ways.
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