Here’s how one working mother pulls off reducing waste in her busy household
HOME TEAM Elizabeth Dunn, pictured here with her three sons in their New York City home, set out to reduce waste in her kitchen. See below for some key tools.around the time wildfires began ravaging Lake Tahoe and Hurricane Ida turned Queens into a tide pool, I started composting. I wish I could say that, in the face of climate catastrophe, an urgent sense of moral obligation overcame me. Really, though, it was taking out the trash one stiflingly hot Monday evening that pushed me over the edge.
Mr. Greenberg assured me that curbing kitchen waste would be a potent way to reduce my family’s environmental impact. A third of all the food produced in the U.S. ends up in the trash. As that food decomposes, it gives off methane, a greenhouse gas that is, by some estimates, 86 times more potent at driving global warming than carbon dioxide. Wasted food accounts for about 8% of all greenhouse gas emissions, and nearly half of it occurs in the home.
I landed on a compost tumbler made by the Swedish company Jora: a sealed drum that sits on a metal stand. Since the drum is insulated, it can reach temperatures high enough to break down practically anything my kitchen produces, including meat, dairy and fish. Spinning it aerates the contents so you don’t have to get in there with a shovel.
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