Japan is turning uneaten food scraps back into edible food
Recycling food scraps back into food you can eat sounds disgusting at first. But I'm sure everyone hearing about Japan's way of tackling waste would want to know how the process works and how the resulting food tastes. It turns out the process is not disgusting at all once you get to learn about it. It's ingenious, and everyone should be doing it. Spoiler alert: people don't aren't being fed the liquid mass that results from fermenting food scraps with this technology. Instead, pigs get the liquid ecofeed, and then people ultimately eat the pigs.
The technology aims to fix two of Japan's biggest problems: pollution and food waste. That's because Japan imports two-thirds of its food and three-quarters of its livestock feed.
Moreover, Japan is the world's fifth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, and burning food waste contributes to the problem. Japan wants to cut emissions by 46% by the end of this decade and become carbon neutral by 2050. Recycling uneaten food scraps into pig feed can help with that.
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