If you’re like me, you could use a little help getting through your Tuesday. On that front, Weird Al never fails. Anyway, meet Violet, Gordon and the Gang of Misfit Fruits (and Veggies):

Wow. We sure do love to anthropomorphize food, but they’re effective spokespeople. Also, isn’t it a bit odd that these fruits and veggies […]

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 […]

In food-waste-to-energy news: If the state of California processed all of its 5.9 million tons of food waste by anaerobic digestion, it would produce enough energy to power 75 percent of the Bay Area. This according to an East Bay Municipal Utility District study.
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Staying in California, The California bill to allow hotel or catering […]

Yesterday, I arrived at the grocery store just in time for a show. I pulled up as an employee was wheeling some trash and food (two different things) out to the dumpster.
After tossing the clear bags of trash, the employee turned to the four watermelons in the cart. I sat in my car dumbfounded (and […]

Somewhere, Doc Brown is smiling. OK, OK, he’s a fictional character from Back to the Future, but still…
If Metro Vancouver gets its way, it will soon build a plant to convert food waste to fuel. Instead of fueling Deloreans like Doc B did, the plant could power municipal vehicles. Apparently, this is done in Sweden […]

Bless those Seattlites. From where I stand, they’re way ahead of the curve:
They recycle household food waste, or at least they will starting in 2009.
They provide great advice on food waste, quoting excellent experts (scroll to the end).
They recycle food at Mariners games.
They recycle food at hospitals.
About 30 miles down the road in Everett, […]

With college basketball’s season reaching its peak, it’s only fitting that we talk some trash. Or rubbish. In The Rubbish Diet, British blogger “Almost Mrs. Average” completed her eight-week challenge to reduce what she sends to the landfill.
After composting and giving some items to her three-year-old for art projects, the family produced one item of […]

A friend sent me this useful waste diversion presentation created by the Biodegradable Products Institute. The Power Point doc, which takes a bit to load, has some eye-opening statistics about how much food is in our trash.
In slide six, we see that food scraps make up the largest portion of the waste stream. It’s the […]

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 […]

Not surprisingly, there’s been some fallout from the largest beef recall in U.S. history. You know, the one that didn’t really need to happen. Many retailers are frustrated at having to toss perfectly good food.
Recently, Seattle-area landfills have started burying cases of meat that were at school cafeterias. A King County landfill received 230 20-to-30-pound […]