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Food Waste and Hunger - 5:32

with Matt Lillibridge on the Challenge of Solving Hunger and Food Waste

Posted Nov 05, 2018

About one-third of food produced worldwide is wasted every year. The USDA estimates food waste in the U.S. is nearly 30-40 percent of the total food supply. Serve Om Founder, Matt Lillibridge, talks hunger and food waste, and finding a solution locally.

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