The policy that turned a state's food waste into a $400M economy | Yvette Cabrera | TEDxBoston

My earliest memory of dealing with waste isn't glamorous. It's actually sticky. You know the kind of sticky when your sneaker hesitates with every step.Almost like the floor is trying to keep you there. It's me, a young girl behind the grocery store, surrounded by the sounds of clinking glass bottles and that sweet smell of old soda syrup. Every weekend, my parents would take us to this makeshift recycling center right behind the grocery store to sort our bottles and cans.At the time, I thought it was just ...