Category Archives: Waste Stream

Friday Buffet

September is Hunger Action Month, courtesy of Feeding America. You can pledge to take action on hunger and help your local food bank win a truckload of food. — — Marin County (California) is set to go zero four percent waste. — — Speaking of zero waste, Mrs. Green over at My Zero Waste has […]

September 10, 2010 | Also posted in College, Friday Buffet, Household, Hunger | Comments closed

Friday Buffet

Courtesy of the NY Times’  City Room Blog, Answers from a Garbologist Part I and Part II. Here’s the best line from first part: Products most often discarded without being used: vegetables. — — The people have spoken on the 5-Second Rule. Well, at least they’ve participated in a poll. — — Dan Sullivan kills […]

July 16, 2010 | Also posted in Composting, Food Safety, Friday Buffet | Comments closed

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, Friday Buffet, Household | Comments closed

Friday Buffet

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, Friday Buffet, International | Comments closed

Friday Buffet

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, Friday Buffet | Comments closed

Ch-Ch-Chain of Waste

Our friends at WRAP just released a comprehensive study on UK food and drink waste throughout the supply chain. I know I sound like a broken record about WRAP, but the British semi-governmental agency keeps releasing important findings on waste. [Note: this research includes drink and packaging waste] The study, which you can read in […]

April 5, 2010 | Also posted in Household, International | Comments closed

Friday Buffet

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, Friday Buffet, History and Culture, School | Comments closed

Diving into Film Reviews

I previously wrote about the documentary film Dive! and posted the trailer. I finally got the chance to watch it and want to pass along a hearty endorsement. It’s a surprisingly personal film, a point driven home in the opening credits when filmmaker Jeremy Seifert’s young son scatters the oranges used to spell out the […]

March 3, 2010 | Posted in Waste Stream | Comments closed

Friday Buffet

For those of you disgusted or at least dismayed by the ‘beaurocracy gone wild’ waste prompted by the Chicago Board of Health that I linked to last week, here’s a piece from Chicago Public Radio on the events. Seems like the food was tossed because its owner couldn’t prove it was safe. Not because anyone […]

February 12, 2010 | Also posted in Food Safety, Friday Buffet, International, School | Comments closed

When Packaging Helps

On Monday, the Freakonomics Blog made a, well, economical case for why we should care more about food waste than packaging waste. Writing as a Super Freak(onomics member), James McWilliams provided a neat summary of why I don’t write more about food packaging. In a word, it’s methane: But if you take the packaging away […]

February 10, 2010 | Also posted in Energy, Technology | Comments closed