This NPR piece takes us inside a New York City hi-rise apartment building that’s now composting as part of a pilot program. Making hi-rise composting work will be a key to New York’s composting future, given New York’s urban landscape.
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Here’s the first peep I’ve seen from Britain suggesting a national ban on landfilling food waste (as a way to meet stingent 2025 greenhouse gas targets).
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The European food industry, in the guise of FoodDrinkEurope, has pledged to meet the EU’s plan to halve waste by 2020. Every Crumb Counts is the industry group’s neat name for their waste reduction campaign.
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Finally, count me in on this Half4theHungry contest entry. Sure, it’s the same idea as Halfsies, but there’s room for some healthy competition here to jumpstart things in the name of hunger relief.