Tag: waste
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US Lets 141 Trillion Calories Of Food Go To Waste Each Year
from npr.org: The sheer volume of food wasted in the U.S. each year should cause us some shame, given how many people are hungry both in our own backyard and abroad. Now the U.S. Department of Agriculture has provided us with a way to understand our flagrant annual waste in terms of calories, too. It’s…
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Food waste study shows 4.2 million tonnes thrown out in Britain
from rawstory.com: British households are throwing away 4.2 million tonnes of food and drink a year, the equivalent of six meals every week, a study published on Thursday said. Some £12.5 billion worth of food and drink was discarded in 2012, with the average British family wasting nearly £60 a month, according to the study…
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Tesco Throws Away 30,000 Tonnes of Food in Six Months
from euronews.com: UK supermarket giant Tesco has admitted it threw away close to 30,000 tonnes of food – in just six months. It also said a combination of supermarkets and households wasted 68 per cent of bagged salad, 40 per cent of apples and nearly half of bakery items. The supermarket chain published its own…
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Colorado School of Mines engineers turn food garbage to glass
from denverpost.com: Colorado School of Mines engineers have found an alternative to digging into mountains for minerals: mining the minerals from food waste. They’ve turned putrid banana peels, eggshells and rice husks into crystal-clear glass. Now they’re investigating what other muck may yield. In a lab here, they rigged up a cooking system that starts…
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UN Offers Banquet Of Blemished Food To Highlight Waste
from reuters.com: The United Nations treated government ministers and officials to a meal of blemished African fruit and vegetables on Tuesday to highlight how perfectly edible food is being rejected by European supermarkets. The five-course meal for 500 delegates at a week-long United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) event in the Kenyan capital included grilled sweet…
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On Corbett Report Radio – Jan26
On Thursday nights, Media Monarchy joins Corbett Report Radio live on Republic Broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health. This week we disgust fetal food, wary waste, school lunch and more…
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Food Waste Denounced by Ministers as Almost 1 Billion Go Hungry
from businessweek: Food waste was denounced by farm ministers and policy makers gathered in Berlin as almost 1 billion people in developing countries go hungry. Consumers in rich countries dispose of 220 million metric tons of food waste every year, equal to the entire food output of sub-Saharan Africa, Jose Graziano da Silva, the director…
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reducing holiday food waste
from upi: Food wasted in the United States annually could satisfy the hunger of the estimated 1 billion malnourished people worldwide, a food waste expert says. Tristram Stuart — a food waste expert and contributing author to State of the World 2011 of the Worldwatch Institute — said some simple changes in food responsibly and…
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5/26 Binge & Purge: Declarations, Doomsday & Marmite
A modern declaration of independence: A real revolution starting in our own backyards // Keepers of the seeds: How seed-saving native farmers preserve agricultural heritage // Factory farms produce 100x more waste than all people in US combined – and it’s killing our drinking water // Hedge fund managers pour assets into farmland as doomsday…
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california throws away enough food to fill 35 stadiums per year
“keep this story in mind next time you hear that nonsense from people like bill gates insisting we need gm crops to feed a hungry world.” vast amounts of food trashed despite incentives from sfgate: Farmers, restaurants and supermarkets throw away millions of tons of edible food each year at a time when a growing…