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Ins and outs from the week in food waste

Friday Buffet

In the Department of Unsubstantiated Claims, this post says America wastes 70 percent of its food! Now, I’m the first person to say we waste too much food, but that sourceless number takes things a bit too far. (I say ‘more than 40 percent,’ as the University of Arizona anthropologist Timothy Jones estimates between 40 and […]

October 26, 2007 | Also posted in Restaurant, Stats | Comments closed

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While I just learned he is running for President, former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel just jumped to the top of my list as the only politician who laments wasted food. In the same fantasy world in which Gravel lives, I hope to be appointed as America’s first Food Waste Czar. But I’ll settle for Secretary of Food Waste.  — —  Good news […]

October 19, 2007 | Also posted in International, School, Waste Stream | Comments closed

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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 Food Recovery | Comments closed

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Just down the road from Wasted Food HQ, they’re doing some nice work recycling food waste at UNC Chapel Hill. Now if they could only waste less… Increased food recycling isn’t necessarily a good thing. Getting students to not take more food than they eat is difficult but important work. — — Hey parents, here’s a no […]

October 5, 2007 | Also posted in Household, Institutional | Comments closed

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No doubt taking a cue from my vociferous stance, an Inuit leader told the Canadian Navy not to dump food waste (and sewage) in arctic waters. — — Here’s an interesting CNN video report on food waste in Hong Kong. A whopping one third of their waste stream is food, compared to 17 percent in […]

September 28, 2007 | Also posted in International, Restaurant | Comments closed

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For the person who needs more kitchen junk: To avoid waste transferring items from cutting board to saute pan, this board folds to form a funnel. Or you can wash the things that fall on the floor. Or adhere to the five-second rule. — — Hosts of the new Kiwi TV show WA$TED! dig through people’s trash and provide […]

September 21, 2007 | Posted in Friday Buffet | Comments closed

Friday Buffet: Asian Edition

This article in India’s The Hindu ponders which is a better use for food waste: composting or energy creation. Before reading, I would have said energy creation. Now, I’m not so sure. I don’t know about you, but I think this is a polite way of saying the West wastes some high quality food:   The […]

September 7, 2007 | Also posted in International | Comments closed

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La Tomatina took place this week. That’s right, the big tomato fight in Buñol, Spain. In addition to being a big ol’ waste of food, it looked kind of dull. Based on this video, I’d say it would get old in, oh, about 30 seconds. — — In the Welcome to Wuh-stah (Worcester, Mass.) department, there’s some […]

August 31, 2007 | Also posted in Food Recovery, Institutional | Comments closed

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This woman is keeping track of the food she’s throwing out in her Chucked Grub Diary. While she feeds a lot of the food to her chickens (a sound move), you and I can take note of how much food waste the average person makes.   — —   The Diet Pulpit provides an interesting perspective; I’d never conceived of wasted […]

August 24, 2007 | Also posted in Household | Comments closed

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Quote of the Week: “Ask yourself: are you really going to eat all of that food before it rots? All 28 cubic feet of it?”               –“futurebird,” from her LiveJournal post on refrigerator size — — Here’s some good news from the “Good News Network.” Food waste (among other, even smellier things) can be used to […]

August 17, 2007 | Also posted in Waste Stream | Comments closed