Re: “Farm to Freezer program steps in to help food banks, planet” (June 30, Opinion):
It’s encouraging and galvanizing to know that the Farm to Freezer program is utilizing surplus produce to make meals for meals banks.
Alternatively, it’s considerably distressing to be taught from the editorial that “390,000 tons of meals goes to waste in Washington annually,” ending up in landfills as the principle supply of methane.
There may be completely no motive to permit this to occur! Yard waste is already separated at most of our city landfills. It appears to me that farms and rural properties could be plentiful sources of carbonaceous (dry) materials in volumes massive sufficient to compost with the surplus (largely moist) produce.
Simply as yard waste assortment in Seattle has diverted rotting meals waste away from rubbish cans and landfills to compost piles, an identical effort, on a a lot bigger scale, would maintain extra produce out of landfills.
Tom Bell, Seattle
