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Jim K

School and University Food Waste Recycling Solution | Food Cycle Science - 0 views

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  • Every day, school cafeterias feed thousands and thousands of hungry students. But what happens to all that food that doesn’t get eaten? Most of it ends up in our nation’s landfills, where it emits unhealthy methane gas and odors that attract vermin and pests.
  • The rest is recycled into an eco-friendly biomass that can be reused as a soil amendment, either on your school’s own grounds or sold for use elsewhere.
    • Jim K
      Jim K on 26 Nov 12
       
      I really thought Food waste wasn't much. It really is a silent killer.
Jim K

How we waste food - thestar.com - 0 views

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  • Every day in the U.K., folks throw out 7 million slices of bread, 660,000 eggs, 1.2 million sausages, 2.8 million tomatoes, 1.6 million bananas, 7
  • Consumers, for one, are spending more than 10 billion British pounds (about $19.5 billion Canadian) on food they don't eat. And all the rotting food pumps more than 18 million tonnes of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere. Stopping that would be the equivalent of taking one in five cars off the road.
Lucas F

Green Schools Initiative : Food Waste in the Face of Hunger - 0 views

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  • Americans waste an astonishing 27% of our available food
  • . According to the US Dept. of Agriculture, saving just 5% of the wasted food could feed 4 million peopl
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Jim K

Studying School Food Waste - 1 views

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  • Overall, almost 80 percent of the school waste could be diverted from landfill
  • t’s vital that schools have both recycling and composting programs.
Sterling H

How To: Keep Food Waste Out of the Garbage | RethinkRecycling.com - 1 views

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  • Food scraps are collected by local farms, processed to eliminate harmful bacterial and fed to livestock.
  • Food-to-animal food waste recyclers accept most food scraps including:
  • All food scraps can be composted, such as vegetables
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  • The agency's 700 employees generate approximately 12 tons of compostable material every year.
  • After all, about 55% of the Twin Cities metro region's waste comes from businesses. That's 1.9 million tons of waste. And nearly 11% of that waste consists of food and food-soiled paper.
  • Retail Grocers & Wholesale Food Distributors Amount of food waste generated per month: 5 to 40 tons.
Lucas F

How Much Food do Kids Throw Away at School? | The Slow Cook - 2 views

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  • * The value of wasted food is probably around $1 billion annually
  • Rescheduling lunch so that it follows recess has been found to reduce food waste, as does giving kids more time to eat
  • kids lining up for seconds at lunch before some kids had even been served their first portions
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  • . Otherwise, the pasta along with a wonderful green been salad, a side of corn and a whole wheat roll all went into the garbage can.
  • Americans get most of their salt from processed foods, which means the food industry will have to find ways to make processed food with much less sodium, or schools will have to start cooking a lot more meals from scratch. Most are not equipped to do so at the moment.
  • The proposed USDA meal guidelines call for doubling fruit and vegetable portions and vastly increasing “whole grain-rich” products in the food line.
  • Sterling H on 19 Nov 12
     
    "kids lining up for seconds at lunch before some kids had even been served their first portions"
kim trefz

VoiceThread Reflections - 1 views

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Sterling H

Green Schools Initiative : Schools: Waste Not! - 1 views

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  • Americans generated 251 million tons of municipal solid waste in 2006, 35% of which came from schools
  • Did you know that Americans waste an astonishing 27% of our available food, contributing to the global food crisis, global warming from methane emissions, and profligate energy use
  • Here's something you and your students can do right now to reduce your school's wastestream: Terracycle, the "world's first company to make everything out of trash," will pay you 2 cents for used wrappers and drink pouches so they can make cool products out of your garbage. You can read more about Terracyle in the New York Times article below, then surf over to their website to find out how your school can earn money while recycling:
    • Sterling H
      Sterling H on 12 Nov 12
       
      This is the answer!
Jim K

Recycle now - Can I recycle food waste? - 0 views

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  • If your local authority has given you a kitchen caddy to collect food waste, you can usually recycle any cooked or raw food scraps.
  •  All fruit and vegetable peelings can be composted at home. For a more comprehensive list of compostable items, visit Making Compost
Lucas F

NYC Schools Cut Food Waste by Composting - Earth911.com - 0 views

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  • Americans discarded nearly 34 million tons of food waste in 2010
  • decided to pilot the four month program in eight schools, which taught the schools' 3,628 kids which foods they can compost and sought to educate administrators, teachers and food workers the importance of greening their disposal habits
  • Plus, the group's members were instrumental in replacing environmentally harmful polystyrene trays with a compostable sugar cane-based substitute in the eight pilot schools, saving over 1,900 polystyrene trays from entering the waste stream.
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  • That number benefits the environment and the district, saving 450 pounds of food waste from landfills each day and saving an estimated $3,000 in garbage bags and $3,700 in disposal fees for the pilot schools each year
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