Growing Mushrooms From Food Waste

Key Facts

• Today we’ll look at a farm in Queens that grows mushrooms for restaurants in food waste collected from those same restaurants.
• But it is a farm — an indoor one that grows mushrooms for restaurants in Manhattan.
• Winson Wong, another co-founder of Afterlife Ag, said that 80 to 85 percent of what is thrown away in a restaurant is “prep waste, ” material like egg shells, lemon wedges and tomato peels — “things people never eat.”
• ReFED, a nonprofit that focuses on reducing food waste, said that the food service industry sent 13 million tons of waste to landfills in 2022, the most recent year for which it has posted figures.

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