If you're interested in learning more about this, the movie Wasted! (one of Anthony Bourdain's last appearances before his death: https://www.wastedfilm.com/ ht

If you're interested in learning more about this, the movie Wasted! (one of Anthony Bourdain's last appearances before his death: https://www.wastedfilm.com/ https://www.wastedfilm.com/) has interesting perspectives on handling food waste around the world. The segment on composting in South Korea is really cool, but the one on Japan is really neat: they initially started diverting food waste and using it as hog feed, which was a great way to divert it from the landfill. This then blossomed in to a desire for pigs that had been fed only a certain type of waste, so you can now purchase pork that was mainly fed leftovers from pineapples, or pork that was mainly fed leftovers from sake production, and it's created a whole separate boutique pork industry.