Many folks, rightly so, are concerned about the quality of food that our public schools serve. A somewhat related problem is the amount of food (think gooey vegetables or rubbery fried fish) that’s thrown out.
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this shows that people won't eat vegetables that are gooey that just means that they have a lot of juice which means more flavor.
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amounting to 24 percent of the total waste generated
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there is a chance that some food waste is food that has a bruise and still is good and nutritious.
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47 percent of schools waste could be composted.
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that means that nearly half of food thrown away is biodegradable.
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That's 1.9 million tons of waste.
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After all, about 55% of the Twin Cities metro region's waste comes from businesses.
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the very real advantage
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this is mine
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Today, Americans generate 10.5 million tons of plastic waste a year but recycle only 1 to 2 % of it. That means that everything else is either incinerated, landfilled, or littered into the environment where it will break down into millions of pieces and bioaccumulate in our food chain.
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If we ge the whole school to do this during one of their art classes we could bennifit from the question: How could we not only help the amount of waste, but humanity.
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A Solution - The Bottle Brick!How to Make a Portable Landfill Device aka Bottle Brick
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If we get the whole school to do this in art this would solve problem # 14
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since food waste is often more than half of the lunch wastestream
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At one school, the Trib measured and found that hundreds of pounds of food were being tossed in the trash ever day at just one school. That included whole apples, oranges and bananas, entire cartons of milk, unopened boxes of cereal.
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That answers part of the question: how much do city schools waste a day compared to us if we round
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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.
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this is important because it answers how you can recycle and how you can make your scraps more inviromentally freindly
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Make sure you remove all packaging from your food waste, especially plastic.
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this is important because it answers how you can recycle and how you can make your scraps more inviromentally freindly
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These collections will allow you to recycle your cooked and raw food scraps which will then go off to be commercially composted at a local facility. This compost is then used in agriculture, landscaping and horticulture. Further information on this process is available
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I watched a show where it showed where the world's largest buffet scraps go and it went to a farm wherec it became pig slop.
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