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To slow and ultimately reverse climate change, there is a key to focus on tackling the climate culprits that make up the biggest contribution to human produced greenhouse gas emissions.
Roughly one-third of the world’s food is never eaten. This waste makes up about 8 percent of global emissions.
Put in perspective, if food waste were a country, it’s emissions would be 3rd on the list of the top carbon emitters just behind the carbon footprints of China and the US.
At the consumption stage, where 22% of this waste occurs, it accounts for 37% of the total carbon footprint of those emissions.
These facts and graphs are drawn from a report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations found here:
https://www.fao.org/3/bb144e/bb144e.pdf
What this means for us, is we can play our part in reducing some of this carbon burden by composting our food waste, rather than throwing it into the trash.
A Subpod Classic can compost 15 kg or 30 liters of food waste per week, which will manage the typical amount of food waste generated by a 4 person family per week. In a year, this will offset 0.55 metric tons of CO2 equivalents that would otherwise be produced by that waste were it put into landfill.
A Subpod Mini can compost 10 kg or 20 liters of food waste per week which will more than manage the typical amount of food waste generated by a 2 or 3 person family per week. In a year, this will offset 0.37 metric tons of CO2 equivalents that would otherwise be produced by that waste going into landfill.
For a deeper dive into this subject, an excellent resource is Project Drawdown. The relevant section from their studies can be found at this link:
