Shannon Lambie outlines the scale of food waste — $31 billion annually in Canada and 1.3 billion tons globally — alongside rising food bank use, framing waste as a food security issue. She presents the Vancouver Fruit Tree Project, a volunteer nonprofit that harvests unused backyard fruit from over 200 tree owners and distributes it to community centers, shelters, and daycares.
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