Tag: waste
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#MorningMonarchy: March 2, 2016
Wasted medicine, glass action lawsuit and food deserts + this day in history w/Hayes’ sElection and our song of the day by Allen Stone on your Morning Monarchy for March 2, 2016.
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#MorningMonarchy: February 17, 2016
Healthy stamps, ugly food and re-Colonelization + this day in history w/the Blaine Act and our song of the day by the Fruit Bats on your Morning Monarchy for February 17, 2016.
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Supermarkets Waste Tons Of Food As They Woo Shoppers
from npr.org: Supermarkets and restaurants serve up more than 400 million pounds of food each year, but nearly a third of it never makes it to a stomach. With consumers demanding large displays of unblemished, fresh produce, many retailers end up tossing a mountain of perfectly edible food. Despite efforts to cut down on all…
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Food-Waste Recycling Faces Hiccups
from online.wsj.com: More states want to recycle their food waste instead of dumping it into landfills, but they have run into a snag: The infrastructure needed to turn huge quantities of table scraps into fertilizer or electricity isn’t ready.
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Only Suckers Abide by Food Expiration Dates
from time.com: Date labels on food were created with consumer safety in mind. But some of the labels result in confusion—and tons of perfectly safe food tossed out for no good reason. We hear regularly that Americans waste a colossal amount of food. One popular factoid has it that we wind up throwing out 25%…









