Sign up for our awesome New York Tech Events weekly email newsletter.     LOCATION EVENT DETAILS Our traditional extractive approach to growing, distributing, & consuming food is creating environmental, financial, & social challenges that can no longer be ignored.In NYC alone, we spend nearly$400 million each yeartrucking waste to landfills & incinerators - & organic materials, including food excess, make up the largest chunk of this waste at roughly one-third. Meanwhile, 1 in 6 New Yorkers struggle with hunger each year. How can such inefficiency exist in a city like New York? A circular economy, meanwhile,operates in a symbiotic & cyclical manner. Participants strive to eliminate the idea of waste. Instead, by-products from one operation become inputs for another, mimicking processes found in nature. Seeing opportunities to create efficiencies & reduce costs associated with food waste, while also creating positive environmental & social impacts, businesses have begun applying these circular economy principles across the urban food landscape. On this panel, we will explore those doing so from both a micro & macro point of view. Panelists include: Andrew Carter - Founder, Smallhold Anthony Allen - Founder, A Tipping Point Clare Miflin - Co-Author, Zero Waste Design Guidelines Plus: an opening keynote fromDr. Peter Wootton-Beard.