The Global Progress of Composting Food Waste | EcoWatch
Yale Environment 360 By Dave Levitan As municipal food composting programs spread across North America and Europe, no city faces a more daunting task than New York. Its Department of Sanitation...
View ArticleChallenge to reduce food waste | StarPhoenix
Charlebois is associate dean at the College of Management and Economics at the University of Guelph. Rising concerns regarding wasted food in the West recently has led a former top executive in the...
View ArticleTesco’s efforts to cut food waste | Yahoo! News
Tesco is dropping some food promotions after finding that two-thirds of produce grown for bagged salad is wasted. The supermarket giant has revealed food waste figures for its operations for the first...
View ArticleTesco admits to massive food waste | Trash Talk
Simon Dawson | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tesco – the U.K.'s largest retailer by sales – has admitted that it generated 28,500 tons of food waste in the first six months of this year, drawing attention...
View ArticleSave the food, save money | Spartan Daily
by Laura Nguyen Oct 17, 2013 12:52 am Tags: - , Dining Commons , economy , food court , food waste , garbage , Just below , money , soartan shops , Student Union Laura Nguyen | Spartan Daily Out of...
View ArticleAccor hotels combat hunger and food waste in Bangkok | Eco-Business.com
Bangkok - Each year, World Food Day (October 16) serves as a stark reminder that about a third of the planet’s food production – 1.3 billion tons, equal to the total amount produced in Sub-Saharan...
View ArticleEmpower consumers to make better choices | Waterloo Record
Waterloo Region Record Rising concerns regarding food waste in the West has recently led a former top executive in the food retail business to develop a business model in which food waste is reduced...
View ArticleSalad, bananas top Tesco’s food waste mountain | Green Biz
Tesco has for the first time unveiled the true scale of how much food waste it produces, vowing to step up efforts to tackle the problem as leading economies pledged Monday to measure and reduce...
View ArticleTesco food waste: Why half of your shopping basket may end up in the bin |...
Tesco hopes that by shining a light on where the problems lie it might be able to cut down on waste. It announced yesterday, for instance, that it would not sell bagged salads as part of...
View ArticleWaste Management Committee scraps plans to compost food-waste on-Island |...
Every Wednesday, Bowen’s food and garden scraps get hauled off the island to the North Shore Transfer Station. For the past year Bowen’s Solid Waste Resource Management Committee has spent the past...
View ArticlePotawatomi project will use food waste to make energy | Milwaukee Journal...
One of Wisconsin's signature industries — food and beverage processing — is getting a cutting-edge flavor in a new renewable energy project scheduled to start operating this week. The project, located...
View ArticleFood waste bins would cost Worcester taxpayers £1m | Worcester News
Food waste bins would cost Worcester taxpayers £1m 12:38pm Tuesday 29th October 2013 in News By Tom Edwards TAXPAYERS in Worcester will be lumbered with a bill of nearly £1 million if extra bin...
View ArticleEmerald Biogas flicks switch on £8m food waste facility | Business Green
The first commercial food waste anaerobic digestion plant in the North East has opened in County Durham. Emerald Biogas' £8m facility at Newton Aycliffe Industrial Estate is expected to produce enough...
View ArticleWorcester bins food waste collection plan | Tom Edwards
Worcester City Council says scheme was too expensive 9:09am Friday 1st November 2013 in News By Tom Edwards WORCESTER has turned its back on more bin collections for food waste – after politicians...
View Article10 Teched-Out Techniques for Saving Food | Gizmodo
S Hey America: You waste almost 40 percent of the food you produce. WTF? Sure, you can address that by making behavioral changes, but, uhm... boring! Fortunately, we can fix this. With gear. Dehydrate...
View ArticleGlobal Food Waste Campaigns Suffer From Data Deficiency | The Guardian
Millions of tons of wheat rotting in the open in Amritsar, Punjab after India ran out of warehouse space to store it in 2012. Photograph: Altaf Qadri/AP Food waste is an issue of global significance,...
View ArticleRestaurants Urged to Join Campaign to Gain Zero Food Waste to Landfill by...
Restaurants, retailers, food manufacturers and householders should view food waste as a ‘valuable resource’ and adopt new measures to prevent the millions of tonnes of leftover and surplus food being...
View ArticleTurning Food Scraps into Energy | Contra Costa Times
SAN JOSE -- The nation's largest facility for turning food scraps into biogas is about to go online in north San Jose. The project is a unique partnership between GreenWaste, which collects garbage,...
View ArticleGarbage study offers recycling ‘wake up call’
by Elizabeth Dunbar , Minnesota Public Radio November 18, 2013 ST. PAUL, Minn. — Food waste and other organic material made up nearly a third of what Minnesotans sent to landfills in 2012, according...
View ArticleGreat Talk on Food Waste Management and Reduction | C-SPAN & Local Food Lab
Representatives and founders of various food waste management organizations from around the U.S. talked about ways to reduce food waste. They highlighted strategies and initiatives such as new...
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