I’ll let you in on a few of my sustainability-wins lately.
Instead of shopping, I’ve been renting my clothes.
I have broken up with plastic bags in all forms.
And lastly, I’ve transitioned the soaps and detergents in my home to be nontoxic.
Green star for me, but there’s still one area where I needa lotof help.
And while this is a very privileged problem, I’m also not the only one facing it.
After all, theaverage American wastes nearly one-third of the food they buy.
And a lot easier, with the help of theEco 5, the newest generation of the FoodCyclerTM byVitamix.
Food waste is an obvious problem because we should only buy what we can realistically consume.
But also because it impacts the environment.
Food waste is responsible for nearly6% of global greenhouse gases.
But first I had to know: How is that even possible?
This machine quietly pulverizes, dries, and aerates food waste.
It sounded like the perfect solution for my kitchen, but I had to see it to believe it.
I thought theEco 5would be aproject, but the whole setup was painless and took less than 10 minutes.
First impression: The entireEco 5unit is about the size of an office trash can.
(The larger unit can be stored elsewhere, close to a plug.)
Over the next few days, I excitedly tossed my food scraps in the bucket.
Once it was full, I was ready to run my first cycle.
And some new plant food to give my green-thumbed friends!
It might sound similar, but theEco 5isn’t a composter.
It’s afood waste recycler, meaning that this technology creates a solution for thewholelife cycle of food.
It turns food waste into plant food, and that plant food then generates more food.
But theEco 5immediately made my kitchen a greener (and cleaner) place.
Add it all up, and this machine is arguably the most handy appliance in my kitchen.
But it doesn’t just get the five stars as a practical way to dispose of food waste.
TheEco 5has put me in the mindset of wasting less.
Throwing away food has always felt like a loss.
