PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Matt Jozwiak, CEO and Founder of Rethink Food, on Food Waste Management
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Matt Jozwiak, CEO and Founder of Rethink Food, testified on the issue of excessive food waste in New York City's institutional food system, particularly in city shelters. He emphasized the potential for containerization and organic waste separation to highlight and reduce this waste, ultimately saving taxpayers money.
- Expressed support for the city's recent progress on sanitation and sustainability issues
- Focused on waste management for institutional food, particularly in city shelters and procured food across the city
- Argued that containerization and organic waste separation would lead to identifying and reducing excess in the institutional food system, resulting in significant taxpayer savings
Matt Jozwiak
2:24:31
Good afternoon.
2:24:32
My name's Matt Joswiak.
2:24:34
I'm the CEO and founder of Rethink Food.
2:24:35
I want to thank the council for hosting this today, and also the administration for making, like, what I agree with, a lot of progress in the past couple of years around sanitation sustainability and the issues that we talk about.
2:24:47
Our interests here are slightly different.
2:24:50
We're really focused on waste management for institutional food.
2:24:54
We believe that there's an excessive food waste problem within our city shelters and any procured food across the city.
2:25:00
And we believe that the containerization and separating organic materials will lead to, shining a light on the excess and waste that is in, the institutional food system and will lead to a reduction, which will ultimately save the taxpayers, 1,000,000 and 1,000,000 of dollars.
2:25:19
So I just wanna, once again, thank everybody for, hosting this, and, happy holidays.
