World making little progress on food waste, a big climate problem

FILE PHOTO: Richard Redmond brings his food scraps to Compost Culture, a high-school students run organization that collects food waste to turn it into compost, as Claire Wang and Daniel Freysson look on, at the South Pasadena farmers market, in South Pasadena, California, U.S., November 3, 2022. REUTERS/Aude Guerrucci

(Reuters) - Every Thursday, California resident Richard Redmond takes a gallon-sized container of food scraps to the farmers market in the city of South Pasadena where it is collected and composted for use in gardens – an effort to reduce the amount of household waste he sends to landfill.

"It's just stunning," the web designer, who is in his 60s, said. "You can see how separating it just reduces the amount of garbage you are putting out."