Friday Buffet

Bleaching food so humans don’t eat it has to be some sort of sin, right? Thoughts?

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Wow, I didn’t realize food was the largest portion of California’s waste stream. Nationally, it’s paper. Probably speaks to Californians’ success at recycling paper…and their lackthereof in reducing food waste.

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Talk about a candidate for most misleading headline. Then again, it works if by ‘landfill,’ they mean ‘compost.’

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General Mills will soon power a plant with a biomass steam boiler that burns spent hulled oats used to make their cereal. Hey, wait, Hall and Oates weren’t that bad!


Well, maybe…

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Not food waste, but still: ConAgra says it plans to reduce packaging waste by 2015. Because, after all, what’s the rush?

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2 Comments

  1. Posted April 9, 2010 at 11:10 am | Permalink

    I have to say, that Hall and Oates joke could have gone in a number of directions. Plenty of unintentional comedy, but some pretty sweet tunes, too, like this one

  2. Posted April 10, 2010 at 10:49 am | Permalink

    Thanks for the link to the California food waste article. I’ve reposted it to my FB page…you would think we would be getting better rather than worse at controlling food waste.