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. […]

To get you in the mood for the weekend, here’s a bit about fishing. More specifically, it’s a discussion of fishing “waste” and ethics by a charter boat operator.
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Here’s a rare occasion when the government actually asks restaurants to offer smaller portions. Of course, this isn’t in the U.S., but The Philippines.
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While I […]

For your listening pleasure, check out this discussion of food waste on BBC/Radio 4’s The Food Programme.
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If college food waste is caused partly by students not liking the choices, will a student menu rating Web site help? Middlebury College will see.
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This Subaru plant in Indiana is a “zero-waste” facility. Among other green practices, […]

Filipinos, or Pinoys, waste 1.2 million tons of rice each day. That amounts to a spoonful of rice per person, according to this article in the Philippine Star. In response, the Filipino government has launched a rice conservation program and an advocacy campaign.
Well, folks, we Americans waste about 40 percent of all the food we […]

The beef recall saga continues, unfortunately.
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I’m sad to report that students at my alma mater are wasting lots of food. Come on, Wesleyan–you’re better than that.
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On the other side of the college coin, Columbia University has begun a “Trayless Thursdays” experiment. Ditto for Williams College. Not to split hairs, but wouldn’t ‘Trayless Tuesdays’ […]

Tuesday I linked to an article on the massive food waste in Britain. Buried deep within that piece was a fascinating quote that warrants discussion:
Tim Lang, food policy professor at City University, said: “Waste is a fundamental part of the food economy and it will be hard to get rid of. I do not see […]

London’s The Independent reported on Sunday that Britain throws away half the food it produces. Whoa.
Here are the numbers: 20 million tonnes of food wasted per year at a cost of £20 billion pounds.
The US is said to waste between 40 and 50 percent of all food it produces, according to research done […]

Ireland’s EPA just weighed in with this discussion paper on how to reduce food and yard waste in landfills. Here’s a decent summary of the study, which suggested ten potential changes to keep food from rotting in landfills.
Conspicuously absent was the suggestion: ‘Stop wasting so much food!’
The Irish study stems from the European Union’s […]

For you science-minded folks, here’s the Table of Condiments that Periodically Go Bad. I love the idea and the title, but disagree with some of the cautious estimates. When was the last time you threw away ketchup after five months (or spelled it ‘ketsup’)?
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This blogger and I could be fast friends. Check out her […]