Food waste is a huge climate problem. A new candy has a sweet solution in time for Halloween | CNN Business

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The end of October is a sugar avalanche as kids don their Halloween costumes and snag as many sticky sweets as they can. But the prospect of collecting and eating a whole trick-or-treat bag of candy gets a little scary when you think about the impact.

Not only are most Halloween favorites not good for children’s health, but many candy ingredients are sourced through processes that harm the planet. Cacao is often grown in rainforests that have been clear cut for farming, for example. And unsustainable sugarcane production can also emit large amounts of planet-warming gas. Then there’s all the candy that goes to waste in the aftermath. But Amy Keller says she has a sweet solution.

In the US, ReFed — a nonprofit dedicated to ending food loss and waste across the country — estimated that nearly 90 billion meals’ worth of food goes either unsold or uneaten each year.

 

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Smart idea.

Eat the crickets, children. Think of the environment.

CNN can find a problem with everything that is fun. How sad is it to be a liberal and living life like this all the time?

Oh S T F U! God damn!

How sweet ...

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