Even more than plastic and paper, food waste is filing up trash cans in the United States and becoming a problem across the world.
According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, discarded food worth nearly $165 billion annually is rotting in municipal landfills. This costs cities and businesses billions more in waste management expense. Now, however, there's an app for that.
"A lot of technology is developed to address trivial problems such as photo sharing, chatting or dating," said Tony Vu, the CEO of MintScraps, in an interview. The company run by Vu has pioneered a web-based application to help businesses measure and reduce waste.
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