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Reducing Food System Emissions, One Bite At A Time

Energy Innovation

Consumers should also consider the end-of-life consequences of waste: pollution, millennia-long breakdown times, and overflowing landfills (Qin and Horvath, 2022). For instance, use of plastic packaging has increased sharply in recent decades, from 2 million tons in 1950 to 381 million tons in 2015. Source: Qin and Horvath 2022.

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Why technology could make animals obsolete

AFN Sustainable Protein

And despite its many shortcomings, plastic continues to take market share from leather. This may not be the meat our fathers will eat, but with no antibiotics, chemicals, or ethical objections, it may be the meat our children will eat. The invention of the car came with urban sprawl, pollution, and over 1.25