Coming to Grips With Food Waste

Food waste is gaining prominence and visibility in our modern world.

Multiple Impacts of Household Food Waste

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2019.00143/full

 

Grocery Store Waste Statistics Are a Wake-Up Call

https://www.dumpsters.com/blog/grocery-store-food-waste-statistics

High school students shocked at waste uncovered during cafeteria food waste audits

https://www.nclnet.org/lifesmarts_foodwaste_audit

Schools waste $5 million a day in uneaten food. Here's how Oakland is reinventing the cafeteria

https://grist.org/article/schools-waste-5-million-a-day-in-uneaten-food-heres-how-oakland-is-reinventing-the-cafeteria/

 

Farmers Are Using Food Waste To Make Electricity

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/11/30/783001327/chew-on-this-farmers-are-using-food-waste-to-make-electricity

https://www.biogasworld.com/news/turning-food-waste-into-energy-to-power-homes/

 

South Korea once recycled 2% of its food waste. Now it recycles 95%.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/04/south-korea-recycling-food-waste/

 

A Restaurant With No Leftovers

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/01/business/zero-waste-restaurants.html

Grocery stores make reducing food waste a priority in Durango

https://durangoherald.com/articles/308780-grocery-stores-make-reducing-food-waste-a-priority-in-durango

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Photo by Tim Cooper on Unsplash