Category Archives: General

Who Cares?

Today, I was going to recap how we waste nearly half the food we produce in America. How the average American creates 4.6 pounds of trash every day, 12.4 percent of which are food scraps. How more than half of the average restaurant’s trash is food. I had planned to write about how it takes […]

April 1, 2008 | Posted in General | Comments closed

Art or Waste?

Yes. Check out the entire set of photos from Mika Anderson’s amazing “Splashening” shoot and a wider range of fruit splahes here. I had mentioned on Friday that if you’re going to waste food, you may as well make art with it. These beautiful shots certainly fit that description. From a waste perspective, however, I […]

March 15, 2008 | Posted in General | 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 Food Recovery | Comments closed

08 Food Waste Wishes

It’s 2008, y’all (Happy New Year!), and high time to cut the amount of food going down the drain. Here are eight wishes for preventing food waste in this year: 1. Wal-Mart resumes food donations of edible but unsellable goods (The store halted its program two years ago). 2. More cities and towns follow the lead of Seattle, […]

January 1, 2008 | Also posted in Composting, Energy, Household, Restaurant, Technology | Comments closed

Gleaned Information

Monday, I met with Joel Berg, the first and only USDA Coordinator of Food Recovery and Gleaning. Berg held that position from 1996 to 1999, and his seat hasn’t been filled since he left (largely due to politics–he was a Clinton appointee). While I’d interviewed him by phone, I learned a great deal more about […]

November 29, 2007 | Also posted in Q & A | Comments closed

Post-Thanksgiving Post

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving (and that you’re still enjoying the leftovers). I know I’ve had quite a few delicious turkey, stuffing and cranberry sauce sandwiches recently. On Sunday, friend of Wasted Food (but no friend of waste) Ted Lee, co-author of The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook, e-mailed to say:  I was just thinking about Wasted […]

November 26, 2007 | Posted in General | Comments closed

Extra! Extra!

Food waste awareness is gaining steam thanks to this CNN article that ran yesterday. Plus, they want your opinion on the topic. I’m not sure why the article is classified as a ‘World’ story instead of a ‘U.S.’ one, but it’s encouraging nonetheless.

September 25, 2007 | Posted in General | Comments closed

Senior Gleaning

Greetings from sunny California! I’ve seen so much food recovery in the last 48 hours that I’m under the impression there’s no food waste in the Golden State. I know I sure didn’t waste anything I ordered at In-N-Out Burger. Yesterday, I had the pleasure of volunteering with Senior Gleaners, Inc., of Sacramento. I went […]

September 13, 2007 | Posted in General | Comments closed

On the Road

As a (relatively) young man, I’m following that storied piece of advice by going West. I’ll be in California for the rest of the week doing wasted food research. There, I’ll meet the Davis scientist who developed the anaerobic digester that produces electricity from food waste. I’ll also get to see that digester up close. In addition, I’ll tour Salinas […]

September 11, 2007 | Posted in General | Comments closed

R & R

I’ll be on vacation this week and won’t be posting. The beach rental where I’ll be staying doesn’t have Web access–a blessing and a curse–so I suppose I’ll have get some sun. Just know that I’ll be doing my best to finish off others’ hamburgers and hot dogs. Anything in the name of avoiding food waste.   Before I […]

July 15, 2007 | Posted in General | Comments closed