Finally! Someone quantified just how much greener it is to reduce food waste than to compost it. The Stockholm Environmental Institute found that avoiding waste has 30 times the benefit of composting, when it comes to cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
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If you want to see some beautiful pictures of volunteers gleaning broccoli and cabbage, look no further.
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I’m pretty sure David Giles is my favorite dumpster-diving Australian-born PhD candidate in the U.S. He’s doing neat work examining how cultural assumptions about what is appetizing cause so much food waste and I can’t wait to see what his eventual book looks like.
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Finally…not to split hairs, but I don’t remember changing my last name. (And mid-article, too!)
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