Category Archives: Composting

Breaking News: SF Recycling Bill Targets Food Waste

San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors just signed into law an ordinance that will require households and businesses to compost. Starting this fall, everyone except those who get waivers must have a recycling, trash and compost bin, with warnings and then fines for noncompliance. Using the stick instead of the carrot will always rub some people the wrong […]

June 10, 2009 | Posted in Composting | Comments closed

Friday Buffet

Might we see curbside food waste collection in Ohio? Some towns near Columbus are considering it. — — A Little Caesars franchisee in Florida recently started donating all unsold pizzas to a United Way soup kitchen. Never having lived in a Little Caesar’s state (despite enduring their ads), I couldn’t imagine why they had so much excess until […]

May 22, 2009 | Also posted in Food Recovery, Friday Buffet, Household, Restaurant, Trayless | Comments closed

Friday Buffet

Here’s a wasted food first: linking to a sermon. This post from The Middletown Eye has an engaging sermon that touches on excess food and the Food Not Bombs controversy in Middletown, Conn. — — Norcal Waste Systems is now Recology. Cool site, but we’d prefer more composting. — — Swine flu fears lead to slaughter of Egyptian […]

May 8, 2009 | Also posted in Food Recovery, Friday Buffet, International | Comments closed

Compost Awareness Week

Were you aware that it’s International Compost Awareness Week (ICAW)? If not, now you are.  Like their British brethren, the US Composting Council is spreading the word this week. In addition to their ideas for ICAW, the Composting Council has a whole bunch of useful links. Here are some helpful resources for would-be composters and lessons for teaching […]

May 5, 2009 | Also posted in Personal | Comments closed

Watching Waste

The report below has some graphic food composting footage. *Spoiler alert:* It might just spoil your appetite. Embedded video from CNN Video The clip details the virtuous cycle of an Atlanta hotel turning its food waste into compost, which is then used to grow more food. A progressive process, for sure. A higher goal, though, […]

April 20, 2009 | Also posted in Environment | Comments closed

Friday Buffet

As you guys know, I’m all for avoiding food waste, but this insider tip does not make me want to eat hospital food. Then again, I do like the baking soda toothpaste… — — While you were enjoying Easter, Australia’s Do Something launched the FoodWise campaign. They’ve set some reasonable goals and even have a […]

April 17, 2009 | Also posted in Friday Buffet, Hunger, Institutional, International | Comments closed

East Bay Energy

Here’s a nice recap of Oakland’s uber-progressive food-waste-to-energy plant. East Bay Municipal Utility District (East Bay MUD) has an anaerobic digestion plant that converts Oakland’s food waste to energy, which it then use to power the West Oakland sewage treatment plant. Cool! I think anaerobic digestion is a sound destination for that inedible food waste […]

April 16, 2009 | Also posted in Energy | Comments closed

Friday Buffet

Bon Appetit Management Company, primarily a college food service company, have already reached their year-end carbon reduction goals, including some admirable food waste reduction milestones. Kudos, guys. — — Two opposing Ivy League op-eds: one from the Yale Daily News that’s against waste and one from The Daily Princetonian that only occasionally makes sense. — — […]

April 10, 2009 | Also posted in College, Environment, Friday Buffet, Household, Trayless | Comments closed

Friday Buffet

While we’re all fired up about Seattle, let’s not forget how progressive San Francisco’s composting program is. — — I’m not quite sure what to think when a conscious food squanderer writes about changing her ways. I’m still trying to remain calm after struggling through the first part of her column. — — There’s a new […]

April 3, 2009 | Also posted in College, Friday Buffet, Household, International | Comments closed

Seattle Steps Forward

It might feel like any other Monday to you, but it’s a momentous one. After much buildup, Seattle’s mandatory curbside composting begins today! From now on, Seattleites who live in single family homes must separate their food and yard waste from their regular trash. This organic waste will then be collected weekly in a green […]

March 30, 2009 | Also posted in Waste Stream | Comments closed