Courtesy of the NY Times’  City Room Blog, Answers from a Garbologist Part I and Part II. Here’s the best line from first part:
Products most often discarded without being used: vegetables.
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The people have spoken on the 5-Second Rule. Well, at least they’ve participated in a poll.
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Dan Sullivan kills it with his piece on [...]

A late addition to the steam table: New York’s Dept. of Ag says it’s okay to change the sell-by date on food. The rule itself isn’t terrible, considering the sell-by date is aimed at stores. But it seems like a bad idea in that it could lead to abuse.
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A year into San Francisco’s mandatory composting, there [...]

It’s not every day that Prince Charles and food waste find themselves in the same sentence. But that’s the story out of Britain, as the Prince of Wales blasted the country’s squandering.
“In this country we waste 10 billion quid’s worth of food every year – wasted. Is that really a sensible system at the end [...]

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 [...]

Our friends at WRAP just released a comprehensive study on UK food and drink waste throughout the supply chain. I know I sound like a broken record about WRAP, but the British semi-governmental agency keeps releasing important findings on waste. [Note: this research includes drink and packaging waste]
The study, which you can read in its [...]

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 [...]

I previously wrote about the documentary film Dive! and posted the trailer. I finally got the chance to watch it and want to pass along a hearty endorsement.
It’s a surprisingly personal film, a point driven home in the opening credits when filmmaker Jeremy Seifert’s young son scatters the oranges used to spell out the film’s [...]

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 [...]

On Monday, the Freakonomics Blog made a, well, economical case for why we should care more about food waste than packaging waste. Writing as a Super Freak(onomics member), James McWilliams provided a neat summary of why I don’t write more about food packaging.
In a word, it’s methane:
But if you take the packaging away and focus [...]

Yes, I’m blogging on location from beautiful, hot Santiago. You’ll be glad to hear that I’ve decided against blogging in Spanish!¡
I recently walked by a Santiago market after it had closed and noticed a vendor was still there, doing something odd. I went by to have a look and she was cutting the tops off strawberries, which [...]