Vancouver implemented curbside food scrap composting yesterday, er…Earth Day. It’s limited to single family houses now and is only accepting some organic materials this year.
The city site has some nice promo posters, a video showing how composting is part of cooking and a 35% of home waste is food stat that seems a bit high. But the real question is: [...]

Whoa–just heard about Disney’s food donation program. They donate 50,000 lbs per month of food that has been prepared but not served!
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Hot diggity dog, Dubuque! The “Masterpiece on the Mississippi” is the first city in Iowa to offer curbside food waste collection.
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Was this Julia Child espousing food waste?! On Larry King, after she [...]

Bleaching food so humans don’t eat it has to be some sort of sin, right? Thoughts?
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Wow, I didn’t realize food was the largest portion of California’s waste stream. Nationally, it’s paper. Probably speaks to Californians’ success at recycling paper…and their lackthereof in reducing food waste.
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Talk about a candidate for most misleading headline. Then [...]

CBS’ The Early Show weighed in with some household tips for avoiding food waste. Awesome to see the networks (finally) finding the issue of food waste.
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I can’t really say anything about this Grist article (for reasons that will become clear), but you should read it! In case you’re confused, click one of the links [...]

Sunny sent a tip that ABC News will have a feature on food waste on Friday night. I’ll post a link when/if it’s online.
Update: the story ran on Saturday.
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Cheer up, Ivy Leaguers. Cornell’s NCAA tourney run may have ended, but at least Penn is composting its food waste (and reducing greenhouse gas emissions by [...]

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) thinks that reducing our food waste by 25 percent is a reasonable goal. I’d shoot a little higher, but, that’s just me.
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School lunch reform hits New Haven and food hits the bin. Of course, it’s more complex than that. An engrossing read.
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Why can’t composting and crafting go together?
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The UK government [...]

This Treehugger piece uses some neat illustrations to depict the impact of food waste. And the full set of infographics are even cooler.
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Unfortunately, this WWII poster mixes an anti-waste message with lame sexism.
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Are you part of the hard core apple club? A fifth grade group on a trip learns about conservation, more than [...]

Here’s a fascinating preview of an article on home food waste that’s due out in the spring (sort of like the movie trailer of the magazine world!). Based on the online piece, I can’t wait to read the real thing.
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A comment on the above page led me to discover my new favorite Danish phrase: [...]

For those of you disgusted or at least dismayed by the ‘beaurocracy gone wild’ waste prompted by the Chicago Board of Health that I linked to last week, here’s a piece from Chicago Public Radio on the events. Seems like the food was tossed because its owner couldn’t prove it was safe. Not because anyone [...]

In a move that should surprise no one, Portland will test a household food waste pickup system in 2,000 homes come April. Great idea, great quote:
Portland’s solid waste and recycling manager, Bruce Walker, says, “We’re coming right into their kitchen saying, ‘Please change your habits.’ “
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Keep sandwich thieves away with these faux-mold bags. A [...]