40 percent of food produced in the United States is wasted (including food loss). This is a statistic almost as ubiquitous today as Mason jars. People are paying attention because food waste is such a big contributor to climate change and food injustice. But it's not just altruism that has focused the public eye on food waste. For most participants in our food system (ex food lobbyists and farm subsidy recipients), Food Waste = Money Waste.

What, you may ask, can little old me do about such a huge, systemic problem? Alison Mountford has the answer. Alison founded and chefs for  Ends + Stems, a meal planning service to reduce household food waste. Collateral benefit: Alison's service makes shopping for food and cooking at home really easy. 

Most Food Disruptors in our series started out like Alison, smart entrepreneurs with a scalable idea. Fixing our food system relies on forward-looking businesses who risk disrupting old ways of doing things, not only in food processing, but also in our consumer behaviors.

Tune in to gain a fresh perspective on your personal food consumption habits, and the easy ways you can become part of the food waste solution. And learn how a bottom-up approach to smarter shopping and food prep can aggregate into systemic change that our political system is too sclerotic to achieve from the top-down.