It must be Carrot Week here. This post, after a nice food waste primer, traces the not-so-nice journey of our orange friends (in the “A Small Experiment with Carrots” part). To wit:
…an organic farmer growing carrots can reasonably expect between 40% and 60% of his carrots to be rejected.
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Food seal? No, Food-sealing. Oh.Â
Who knew packaging could get this detailed?
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FoodBox is bringing the heart-in-the-right-place idea of Replate to New York. Created by the designers at Nohaus Solutions (sorry guys, it’s an umlaut-free site), the intiative asks diners to drop leftovers in their, you guessed it, FoodBoxes.
Here’s a nice illustration of how it’d work (not sure if that was created by the FoodBox designers)
Unfortunately, if you’re not near Avenue of the Americas and 14th St., it’ll have to be–gasp–handed directly to a homeless person. All joking aside, we here at Wasted Food (OK, I) wish them luck building this project.
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The “foodbox” illustration I drew predates the Nohaus website… and I don’t work at Nohaus.
In Sydney Australia we have an organisation called Ozharvest who collect leftover food from restaurants, hotels, caterers etc. I am a food photographer and a few years ago I was mortified at how much wastage went on at my photographic shoots, so I organised food containers and boxed it all up after every shot was done. At the end of the day I ring up Ozharvest and they come pick it all up with any leftover produce and grocery items and distribute amongst the homeless, welfare agencies and shelters. What surprises me is the reaction I get from most colleagues at why I do this. The most common is “why do you bother, it’s so much hassle”. Well I bother because I can’t stand the thought of people going hungry and also the thought of food ending up in landfill and going to waste. At least two to three large black garbage bags of waste would be generated for each days shooting otherwise, I try to keep it down to a half to maximum one bag in my studio.