Category Archives: Food Recovery

Friday Buffet

One of my favorite food recovery topics is backyard gleaning, where volunteers collect unwanted fruit from residential trees. If I had a tree producing anything edible, I’d be all over it. And no, acorn soup doesn’t taste good. — — Kudos to Jack Davis, an 11-year-old Florida boy, for prodding Florida legislators to pass a […]

March 28, 2008 | Also posted in Friday Buffet, International, Tree Gleaning | Comments closed

Seattle Slays

Bless those Seattlites. From where I stand, they’re way ahead of the curve: They recycle household food waste, or at least they will starting in 2009. They provide great advice on food waste, quoting excellent experts (scroll to the end). They recycle food at Mariners games. They recycle food at hospitals. About 30 miles down […]

March 27, 2008 | Also posted in Events, Institutional, Waste Stream | Comments closed

Monday pat on the back

I just had a mini photo essay published on a site called The Jew & the Carrot (“Jews, Food & Contemporary Issues” with gentiles cordially invited, natch). Hope it’s kosher to self-reference like this. Anyway, it’s a decent collection of photos I’ve taken over the past year and a tolerable way to ease into your […]

March 3, 2008 | Also posted in Personal | Comments closed

The Oscars make me Grouchy

The Academy Awards, in keeping with the de rigeur environmentalism, put out this laundry list of green achievements. While I didn’t see any stretched Prius limos lining up the red carpet… Transportation offered by the Academy to presenters and staff included zero-emission hydrogen (25% of vehicles) and hybrid (60%) vehicles Of the food-related bullet-points, most […]

February 25, 2008 | Also posted in General | Comments closed

Friday Buffet

Those crazy Brits are at it again, using chocolate waste (an oxymoron?) to power vehicles. The BioTruck team converts it into biodiesel and drove all the way to Timbuktu on the choco-fuel in “the world’s first carbon-negative expedition.” — — Staying in Britain, The Times has an interesting profile of the queen of food recycling, […]

January 4, 2008 | Also posted in Friday Buffet, International | Comments closed

Holiday Spirit?

Playing the role of Scrooge this (and most every) year, is Wal-Mart. St. Louis’ KMOV-TV recently ran a great piece of investigative journalism on just how much food is wasted at Wal-Mart and Sam’s Clubs. The station went inside the belly of the beast and got some fascinating hidden camera footage. The piece smartly details […]

December 20, 2007 | Also posted in Supermarket | Comments closed

Give by Giving

As we’ve heard lately, times are tough for food banks. Diminished government funding and private donations have left most food banks struggling to meet client demand. In New York, City Harvest has responded with a Million Pound Pledge to add that much food to its regular collection. Essentially, they’ve asked donors to step up, as described in this […]

December 11, 2007 | Also posted in Hunger | Comments closed

Giant food excess

I just returned from a research trip to New York. In addition to visiting a food pantry and speaking with the former USDA  coordinator of food recovery, I observed more stadium food recovery. Last summer, I went to a Mets game to witness Shea Stadium food donation (baseball). There, I tagged along with a concessions manager as he […]

November 27, 2007 | Also posted in Events | Comments closed

Congressional “Action”

The Federal government is finally dipping its sizable toe into the food waste waters. Last week, Missouri congresswoman Jo Ann Emerson introduced legislation that could become The Federal Food Donation Act of 2007 (HR 4220). If it passes, the bill would “encourage” most federal agencies to donate “excess, apparently wholesome food” to the hungry via non-profit groups. Jeffrey Connor, an […]

November 20, 2007 | Also posted in Institutional | Comments closed

Friday Buffet

New articles about dumpster diving seem to pop up daily. But you never get the full story from the “freegan” point of view. Here’s a well-written recap of a night spent dumpster diving from Liz Seymour, a Greensboro writer who lives in a communal house. — — I found this video on The River food […]

October 12, 2007 | Also posted in Friday Buffet | Comments closed