Here’s a neat idea: six Seattle area families held a contest to see who could cut the most weight from their garbage. The winning family trimmed its trash by 82 percent in just six weeks.
Sure, it helps that King County allows residents to put food waste in the yard waste bin that is collected, but those with a yard can start their own bin. And city folks can use this indoor composting contraption
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Waste Aware Scotland has its own Love Food, Hate Waste site to match the one for England and Wales.
While the advice on use-by dates is a bit cautious, the meal planning and portioning tips are better. Plus, you’ve gotta love the cheesy posters on offer. Actually, this one‘s pretty cool.
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Here’s an engrossing tale: A group of Kentucky band students traveling in China attends a traditional Suzhou banquet. Their teacher respectfully describes this “cultural train wreck” and the ensuing food waste (after comparing US and Chinese eating habits and recalling her childhood Chinese(-American) food experiences).
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As is the case in much of the developing world, poor storage and transportation technology leads to poor prices for the farmer and vast food waste in Tanzania, as this article describes.
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Sorry Jonathan, very little to do with the above, but just have a look at this. Love food, detest the EU!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/7474722.stm
Blessings,
What a shame-I’d gladly accept that allotment of kiwis that are 1 mm too small. I just saw that news item and plan to write about it in my next post.
BTW, that slogan might have legs, Father.
I’m really inspired now to try and cut our waste even more, thanks for post!
I’ve read about the NatureMill before, and I find the idea quite interesting. I live in a flat (apartment) with no garden space at all, and not a lot of spare space in general; and I haven’t got any good way of disposing of kitchen waste (just the normal local rubbish collection, which probably goes to landfill).
But I’m still not entirely convinced: 1) Is it really as hassle-free as they promise? I know they admit that it takes some experience, and that’s fine – but how hard is it to run it properly? 2) How much electricity does it really use? I’ve seen the figure of 10W, which I can just about live with – my router/modem/network storage setup probably eats way more than that as it is. And really, 3) Is it worth the £170 it would cost me? (Plus possibly import duty/taxes…)
I may well buy one anyway, sooner or later. Throwing away all my compostable kitchen waste to probably-landfill is just painful, and I don’t really want a worm bin in my kitchen (and haven’t really got anywhere else to put it).
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