Category Archives: Friday Buffet

Ins and outs from the week in food waste

Friday Buffet

A late addition to the steam table: New York’s Dept. of Ag says it’s okay to change the sell-by date on food. The rule itself isn’t terrible, considering the sell-by date is aimed at stores. But it seems like a bad idea in that it could lead to abuse. — — A year into San Francisco’s mandatory […]

June 4, 2010 | Also posted in Composting, Environment, Household, Waste Stream | Comments closed

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It’s not every day that Prince Charles and food waste find themselves in the same sentence. But that’s the story out of Britain, as the Prince of Wales blasted the country’s squandering. “In this country we waste 10 billion quid’s worth of food every year – wasted. Is that really a sensible system at the […]

May 28, 2010 | Also posted in Composting, International, Waste Stream | Comments closed

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Vancouver implemented curbside food scrap composting yesterday, er…Earth Day. It’s limited to single family houses now and is only accepting some organic materials this year. The city site has some nice promo posters, a video showing how composting is part of cooking and a 35% of home waste is food stat that seems a bit high. But the real question […]

April 23, 2010 | Also posted in College, Composting, Environment, Events, Food Recovery | Comments closed

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Whoa–just heard about Disney’s food donation program. They donate 50,000 lbs per month of food that has been prepared but not served! — — Hot diggity dog, Dubuque! The “Masterpiece on the Mississippi” is the first city in Iowa to offer curbside food waste collection. — — Was this Julia Child espousing food waste?! On […]

April 16, 2010 | Also posted in Composting, Food Recovery, Waste Stream | Comments closed

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Bleaching food so humans don’t eat it has to be some sort of sin, right? Thoughts? — — Wow, I didn’t realize food was the largest portion of California’s waste stream. Nationally, it’s paper. Probably speaks to Californians’ success at recycling paper…and their lackthereof in reducing food waste. — — Talk about a candidate for […]

April 9, 2010 | Also posted in Energy, International | Comments closed

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CBS’ The Early Show weighed in with some household tips for avoiding food waste. Awesome to see the networks (finally) finding the issue of food waste. — — I can’t really say anything about this Grist article (for reasons that will become clear), but you should read it! In case you’re confused, click one of […]

April 2, 2010 | Also posted in International, School | Comments closed

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Sunny sent a tip that ABC News will have a feature on food waste on Friday night. I’ll post a link when/if it’s online. Update: the story ran on Saturday. — — Cheer up, Ivy Leaguers. Cornell’s NCAA tourney run may have ended, but at least Penn is composting its food waste (and reducing greenhouse […]

March 26, 2010 | Also posted in Composting, Food Recovery, International | Comments closed

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The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) thinks that reducing our food waste by 25 percent is a reasonable goal. I’d shoot a little higher, but, that’s just me. — — School lunch reform hits New Haven and food hits the bin. Of course, it’s more complex than that. An engrossing read. — — Why can’t composting and crafting […]

March 19, 2010 | Also posted in Composting, International, Restaurant, School | Comments closed

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This Treehugger piece uses some neat illustrations to depict the impact of food waste. And the full set of infographics are even cooler. — — Unfortunately, this WWII poster mixes an anti-waste message with lame sexism. — — Are you part of the hard core apple club? A fifth grade group on a trip learns […]

March 12, 2010 | Also posted in Energy, History and Culture, School, Waste Stream | Comments closed

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Here’s a fascinating preview of an article on home food waste that’s due out in the spring (sort of like the movie trailer of the magazine world!). Based on the online piece, I can’t wait to read the real thing. — — A comment on the above page led me to discover my new favorite […]

February 26, 2010 | Also posted in Food Recovery, Household, International | Comments closed