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USDA Challenges US to Waste Less Food 22 May 2013 | 07:53 pm
I’ve been fairly critical of the USDA in the past for not doing enough to combat food waste. But I’m excited to report that the Department of Agriculture is will launch the U.S. Food Waste Challenge i...
That’s Bananas… 20 May 2013 | 09:48 pm
I spend a lot of time in supermarkets, and I’ve never seen this… …until this weekend. No idea what is going on here, but it was a pretty clean cut straight through that banana.
Friday Buffet 17 May 2013 | 01:00 pm
Much of the D.C. deer population have completed a quick journey from USDA sharpshooters scopes to soup kitchen plates. D.C. Central Kitchen recently received 600 pounds of ground venison from the Nati...
Packaging Pros and Cons 16 May 2013 | 01:00 pm
I’ve been thinking a lot about packaging recently, as I’ve been writing something about Austin’s mostly packaging-free grocer, in.gredients. From a life-cycle assessment perspective, packaging is envi...
Monday Buffet 13 May 2013 | 01:30 pm
Wasted food = wasted water. This handy Ecocentric blog post reminds us of that truth. — — Mixed news from Massachusetts: The DEP confirmed its upcoming 2014 commercial food waste ban and pushed for a ...
FRN gets BUX 8 May 2013 | 10:06 pm
It’s always nice to see good empowered. Especially when that good is an organization run by young adults. Yesterday, the youth-powered Food Recovery Network received a cool $150,000 grant from the Sod...
Building Toward Less Waste 3 May 2013 | 02:55 pm
City Harvest does fabulous work recovering edible but unsellable food in New York City. Now, with a new, 45,000 square foot facility in Queens, they’ll be even more efficient in their work. Watch City...
Iowa Project Fights Food Waste 2 May 2013 | 02:57 pm
Not every state has its own Waste Reduction Center. Even fewer have a state-wide Food Waste Reduction Project. Actually, I can’t think of one. While Iowa has long had the former (a part of the Univers...
Politicizing Waste Reduction Advice? 29 Apr 2013 | 05:39 pm
Well that’s unfortunate. British politicians and/or the British media have politicized advice on reducing food waste. The Independent reported Environment Minister Richard Benyon’s remarks about famil...
Friday Buffet 26 Apr 2013 | 01:10 pm
More than 100 New York City restaurants–including ones owned by Mario Batali, Lidia Bastianich and Danny Meyer–have pledged to cut their waste in half. One thing conspicuously absent in the writeup wa...
