Surplus is usually defined as what’s left over when the demand, or need, of a population has been met. However, in the context of the food system, this definition leaves us with more leftovers than answers. What might be referred to as surplus food faces a core contradiction: while approximately...

On today's episode of All in the Industry®, host Shari Bayer's guest is Evelyn Kim, Co-Founder and Policy Director of Rethink Food NYC, a non-profit organization working to recover nutritious excess food to provide low or no-cost meals to New York City families in need. Trained in the history of...

Summer is fast approaching in Bushwick, and as the streets fill with people emerging from our cool, rainy Spring, they're also filling with something else: trash. This week, we sit down with the leaders behind Clean Bushwick Initiative to unpack the surprising ways they’re reimagining how the community can keep...

Tune in to hear Harry walk around at the Charleston Wine and Food Festival. As part of Heritage Radio Network on tour, Harry went to the festival to do interviews and more. Harry took the mic out into the crowd to see what people were eating, what they thought about...

In December 2018 Katerina Boagtireva opened NY's first packaging free grocery store. Precycle is the culmination of 3 years of planning and if everything goes according to plan you'll be seeing more of these around soon. The idea is that we should keep waste out of the landfill when we...

One month down, eleven to go! Statistically, you’ve probably broken your resolution by now, so what better time to investigate why those new year diets never stick? This week, we bring you stories of how food is set to change in 2019. Eater’s Ryan Sutton shares his restaurant trends predictions...

It's not just the fashion industry, we are making and buying 'stuff' at unprecedented rates. But what happens to it when we are done? Steven Bethel has been creating innovative solutions for the crisis of stuff for over twenty years and he joins Kate to talk about what recyclers and...

Today, on Recommended Reading with Food Book Fair, we are joined by the team from NYC's first annual Food Waste Fair including chef Mary Cleaver of The Cleaver Co. The event which will be held on July 25th at the Brooklyn Expo Center, will showcase a “soup to nuts” approach...

We talk with Julie Andersen about Plastic Oceans, her non-profit that helps to save the oceans by educating people about plastic and helping to get organizations to band together to save the oceans and the planet.

in 2015, Americans discarded 15.1 million tons of clothing and other textiles, and 85 percent of that wound up in landfills. Cities all over the world are scrambling to figure out what to do with textile waste. But it’s not just consumers – New York is a big manufacturing hub...