the primary reason to enjoy fresh produce is for its taste and texture, and for
its health benefits, the environment appreciates it, too. Most of us feel an obligation
to lighten our impact on the environment. Produce is the most direct way to convert
the sun’s energy to our life sustaining needs. The less processing we subject
our foods to before we consume it, the less resources are used. Eating fresh produce
lightens our footprint on the environment.
Of course, once you have the produce home, it
makes no sense to waste it. Technically, produce is “biodegradable”. Sounds good,
but in a land fill after burial the conditions become anaerobic very quickly.
With no oxygen, biodegrading does not happen. Most of the produce that you throw
away takes up space in the landfill for generations to come.
the use of the E.G.G. should cut your spoilage in half. Besides the money that
saves, it takes a load off our disposal systems, too.