Iowa State’s University Extension urges students to reduce waste as part of its Spend Smart, Eat Smart campaign. It includes a useful run-down on expiration date definitions.
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I am in no way surprised that a Portland culinary school teaches students to be smart about waste. I am a bit surprised that the Art Institute of [...]

More fallout from Monday’s topic of energy lost in food waste. In her Discover blog, Sheril Kirshenbaum asks ‘how do we change attitudes and behavior on waste?’ Well, I hope it starts with a book.

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Not that you’d ever think of wasting peanut butter, but just in case…here are 10 other uses for it.
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Nutritionists [...]

Beginning of the end or end of the beginning? Euro robots can power up on food waste. Crazy stuff! What’s next–humans that can turn bytes into bites?!
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A few weeks back, I linked to Eureka Recycling’s cool bike composting program, but here’s an updated report on the Minnesota project via Treehugger.
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Every year around Ramadan, [...]

Huge news in the world of food waste: A new study out of the Univ. of Texas at Austin finds that the food America wastes represents about 2 percent of our total energy output. And, as the study’s authors note, it’s a conservative estimate because they use the 1995 estimate of 27 percent waste.
New Scientist [...]

Update: This one slipped by me, but Diana F. tipped me off to the great news that the LA City Council voted to make city departments create policies for donating leftover food from events.
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Excessive food waste in the House of Commons tea rooms means there are fat mice in the halls of Parliament.
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Given [...]

Courtesy of the NY Times’  City Room Blog, Answers from a Garbologist Part I and Part II. Here’s the best line from first part:
Products most often discarded without being used: vegetables.
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The people have spoken on the 5-Second Rule. Well, at least they’ve participated in a poll.
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Dan Sullivan kills it with his piece on [...]

Slate’s Green Lantern provides what I think is the best ‘tips to reduce your food waste’ piece I’ve ever seen.
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Following up on that, the Dollars and Sense blog from the San Francisco Chronicle echoed those tips.
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I think I’m in love…with my wife, of course. But Miss Almeda is really pushing my buttons in [...]

As if the environmental benefits weren’t enough, separating food waste from landfill-bound trash also creates jobs!
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I always knew Converted Organics was innovative, but now there’s proof that I’m not the only one impressed with their High Temperature Liquid Composting (HTLC) system.
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Not to be outdone, Minnesota’s Eureka Recycling will soon compost food waste [...]

A late addition to the steam table: New York’s Dept. of Ag says it’s okay to change the sell-by date on food. The rule itself isn’t terrible, considering the sell-by date is aimed at stores. But it seems like a bad idea in that it could lead to abuse.
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A year into San Francisco’s mandatory composting, there [...]

It’s not every day that Prince Charles and food waste find themselves in the same sentence. But that’s the story out of Britain, as the Prince of Wales blasted the country’s squandering.
“In this country we waste 10 billion quid’s worth of food every year – wasted. Is that really a sensible system at the end [...]