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Food Waste Piling Up More Than Ever Food Waste Piling Up More Than Ever Here's How To Help Offset Our Food Waste Problem Published December 17th, 2020 at 6:00 AM Ah, the holiday season. It’s the perfect time to be thankful, revel in holiday spirit, and waste even more food.  Americans are really good at wasting food. In fact, we’re wasting more with every passing year. In 1993, Americans wasted 13.7 million tons of food, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. By 2017, we wasted around 41 million tons of food.  We waste food at every link in the food chain. Som...

Reply Madeline Mauceri, 12, and Vanessa DeFerrari clean the Compost Collective's site after it reopened. (Courtesy of Carlos Pesantes) FOREST HILLS, QUEENS — Inside an unassuming lot along Yellowstone Boulevard, in the shadow of the old abandoned Long Island Rail Road tracks that run across the border between Forest Hills and Rego Park, a dedicated crew of volunteers turns trash into treasure. They are the Compost Collective, a group that put down roots in the neighborhood about eight years ago with collection bins at the Church-in-the-Gardens and has since expanded to its own site on Yello...