Category Archives: General

Declare Your Independence from Food Waste!

While we’re celebrating declaring independence from the British Crown, it’s worth remembering to declare your independence from food waste. How does one do that? Here’s one way: Whether you’re planning a cookout, a picnic or a regular old meal, plan ahead! Think about how many people will be eating and the amount folks are likely to […]

July 4, 2013 | Also posted in History and Culture, Household | Comments closed

Friday Buffet

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. — — Here’s the first peep I’ve seen from Britain suggesting a national ban on […]

June 28, 2013 | Also posted in Composting, Friday Buffet, International, Waste Stream | Comments closed

World Environment Day Recap

Yesterday was World Environment Day, and it was raining food waste activism. If only every day could be World Environment Day! (Not quite as catchy as ‘Earth Day every day,’ but you get the idea…). I had a hard time keeping track of all that happened yesterday in Food Waste World, so I’m guessing you […]

June 6, 2013 | Also posted in Environment, Hunger, International | Comments closed

Waste Weigh Friday

Last Friday, I helped oversee a cafeteria waste audit at Bucknell. It was my last day at the school and it was a nice culmination to a week of food waste awareness. It felt like a final exam–to gauge the impact of the week’s conversations, the posters in the cafeteria and a previous waste weigh. […]

April 15, 2013 | Also posted in College, Personal, Worth a Thousand Words | Comments closed

Don’t Judge a Book by its Cover

Here’s a quick reminder (in the most basic terms): See apple. See rotten spot. Cut away rotten spot. See spot gone. Enjoy apple!

March 20, 2013 | Posted in General | Comments closed

Friday Buffet

Huge news from Ireland: Starting in 2016, it will be illegal to put home food waste into the trash. That means all Irish households will separate food waste from the regular waste stream, which will be a boon for composting and anaerobic digestion. — — China’s Operation Empty Plate is the humble campaign that lit a food-waste-reducing fire […]

March 15, 2013 | Posted in General | Comments closed

Stick a Fork In It

Thanks to everyone who strived for a Zero Waste Thanksgiving. And if that describes you, then you’ll appreciate this video:

November 27, 2012 | Posted in General | Comments closed

Visualizing Food Waste

Thanks to Leanpath, for creating and transmitting this clear infographic on food waste. It’s further proof that our wastage is something for which we might want to…atone.

September 26, 2012 | Also posted in Infographic, Stats | Comments closed

Much Ado

Looks like I picked a bad week to be away at a conference. Lots of food waste news, which is great to see. This fabulous NRDC issue paper came out, which kick-started a bunch of media attention on waste. That prompted a spate of national news interest–never a bad thing. I did find the screaming […]

August 24, 2012 | Posted in General | Comments closed

Friday Buffet

A Washington supermarket has an on-site contraption that converts food waste into liquid fertilizer. Organics alchemy, in action! — — The 42 million pounds of food that Forgotten Harvest will recover this year is…a lot. The most, actually. — — Piles of Indian wheat rotting by the side of the road? What a shame; what […]

May 11, 2012 | Also posted in Composting, Food Recovery, Friday Buffet, Personal, Supermarket | Comments closed