Mandatory food waste recycling in San Francisco? It has been voluntary for a few years (using green bins like this minature on the right), but if Mayor Gavin Newsom’s plan is accepted, separation of household food scraps will be required. Seattle has already committed to that course of action by 2009.
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Here are some useful […]

The British semi-governmental, not-for-profit Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) released its long-anticipated food waste study today. The whole of Britain–the media and blogging parts, at least–is going wild.
Here’s The Food We Waste, all 237 pages of it. A good first step would be reading the executive summary.
It’ll take me a bit to digest this […]

I’ve got some good news and some bad news about Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates.
First, the bad: Abu Dhabi’s resort buffets produce massive amounts of food waste. While this isn’t much different in Las Vegas or other buffet-laden destinations, it’s a problem.
Without local food recovery groups, Abu Dhabi’s resort restaurants, especially […]

Food prices are on the rise domestically (especially for pizza) and even more so in the developing world. While that may prompt home budget adjusting for some, it causes others to go hungry and/or take to the streets.
This weekend in Haiti, unrest caused by inflation brought violence and death. The Prime Minister (but not the President) […]

As I learned in this post on All Things Pakistan, there’s a great deal of food waste at Pakistani weddings. This isn’t shocking, nor is it much different in the U.S., but the post provides some food for thought.
In what will be familiar to anyone who has planned a wedding or large event, Syed Ahsan […]

Who wouldn’t want to aid the hungry by playing a game?
That’s what Free Rice does, with the UN World Food Program donating 20 grains of rice for every vocab word you successfully identify. Who says you can’t affect change in this global economy?
Now is a great time to play, as rice prices are going through […]

With Passover just around the corner, it seems ironic that Egyptian bread is in the news. The Financial Times of Germany (even more irony?) reported that 20 percent of Egyptian bread made with subsidized wheat is going to waste. The culprit:
Corrupt bakers sell their cheap flour on the black market or deliberately ruin some of […]

Shifting gears a bit, let’s talk about fishing. In a real quirk of conservation, an attempt to preserve falling fish stocks leads to waste in the British fishing industry.
To comply with the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy (and prevent a tragedy of the commons), commercial fishing boats in waters near Britain must throw back tons of […]

One of my favorite food recovery topics is backyard gleaning, where volunteers collect unwanted fruit from residential trees. If I had a tree producing anything edible, I’d be all over it. And no, acorn soup doesn’t taste good.
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Kudos to Jack Davis, an 11-year-old Florida boy, for prodding Florida legislators to pass a law protecting […]

Amrit is a student at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras). In an effort to curb food waste, he made some posters to put up in the dining hall. He sums it up well on his blog:
Most of us waste food. We don’t care. Will a poster really help? I am not sure. […]