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Food waste, not in good taste

Dumpster diving isn't crazy - food waste is

My friend Lindy returns from Aldi with bags of oatmeal, salad mix, pecans, organic apples, strawberries, grapes, bananas, avocados, bagels and grape seed oil. She debated whether to take the medicine cabinet organizer and then decided against it, but she did grab the massage balls. Lindy has never been inside

More treasure than trash: Dumpster diving continues to rise across Australia

Melbourne-based family man Rick Pauley has cut his weekly spending by more than $100 with a method that isn’t to everyone’s tastes.Mr Pauley sources his groceries from bins. He started dumpster diving earlier this year, and now goes searching for food nearly every night.“There’s an

Environment and Climate Change Canada

0:00/1× 🇨🇦 Did you know that avoidable #FoodWaste costs Canadians $20 billion every year? 🍅 Not only is this issue costly, but nearly a quarter of Canada’s methane emissions come from food and other biodegradable waste in landfills. This #FoodWasteActionWeek (and every week!), find new ways for your organization

The Evening Post in Norway is asking: Does it pay for supermarkets to dump out perfectly edible food?

🍅 Across the West, journalists & policymakers are starting to question current retail practices ever-more frequently. 🥦 Norway has experienced 9% groceries' inflation in the last 12 months & yet many of its supermarkets' dumpsters are packed night after night after night. Over $283 million of food waste dumped out

The Best that Money Can't Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty, & War

📚 "Common crises create common bonds. While people seek individual advantage during good times, shared suffering draws people together. We see this repeated time and time again throughout the centuries, during floods, famines, fire or natural disasters. When the threat passes, people return to seeking advantage over others." Dean

Today I was allowed to save food again

🥕🥬🍓👩🏼‍🌾🌍  🌈 It's unbelievably nice that there are many companies that still pass on food when it slowly becomes unsaleable. 🙏🏼 Doesn't that look appetising? @radieschenglueck gave me 👶🏼 help again while I was doing the pickup 🤗🙏🏼 When it comes to sustainability, many people say: "there's no

The Australian Government has reversed its decision on "renewable" biomass.

0:00/1× 🇦🇺 Native forest biomass will therefore no longer be considered as an eligible renewable energy source. The importance of this reversal cannot be understated! 🌎 In 2015, the Australian Government followed many Global North countries by allowing native forest biomass to be included in the renewable energy program. 🍅 A

Bon Appétit

🍞🍅 🥦🥫 Over a period of six months director Grant Baldwin and producer Jen Rustmeyer ate only unopened or uneaten foods that almost exclusively came out of retail and wholesale dumpsters. Once the couple figured out where to look, they found the challenge shockingly easy: Unwanted food was everywhere. Their diet was

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More people are seeking food relief than ever before

🍊 More people are seeking food relief than ever before, and with the Reserve Bank announcing yet another interest rate hike last week, we anticipate this need continuing to grow. Ask Izzy, an Infoxchange directory that helps people search for social services, recorded over 229,000 searches in January. This is

Respect to Lidl GB on this one

🥦🍏🍅🫑🥬 Popped in for my weekly shop after coming back from holiday last week and came across these £1.50 Fruit and Veg boxes addressing both. Daniel Jourdan's post #foodsharing #foodwaste #foodshare #sustainability #nature #сostofliving

Human health: the catalyst to creating regenerative food systems

🍔 “People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.” - Wendell Berry. We are we eat, and it shows. Our current food system is adept at producing cheap, hyper-palatable, nutrient-poor foods. The US

Why isn't anyone speaking about our food system?

0:00/1× 🍊 The peer-reviewed science is clear: even if we eliminate fossil fuels immediately, we’d still smash through the 1.5 - and probably even the 2-degree celsius targets unless we dramatically change what we eat! Post: Plant-Based News #food #meat #plantbased #climatecrisis #biglivestock #vegan #plantbase #diet

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Fruit trees are true wealth.

🍊 If we all have this, we unplug and are back to The Garden. 🌳 Fruit trees can certainly be considered a form of wealth, as they provide a valuable source of food and nutrition, as well as potential income through the sale of fruits or products made from them. Also are

Las Vegas has a food waste problem

It is all about the buffets. People come to Las Vegas for a lot of reasons. Some come for conventions. Some come for the magic shows, Cirque du Soleil or Celine Dion. A lot of people come to gamble. Some come purely for the spectacle of it all. But everyone

How ‘ugly’ fruit and vegetables could tackle food waste and solve supermarket supply shortages

🌎 The world is facing a significant food waste problem, with up to half of all fruit and vegetables lost somewhere along the agricultural food chain. Globally, around 14% of food produced is lost after harvesting but before it reaches shops and supermarkets. 🫑 Alongside food prices (66%), food waste is a

12 Reasons to Stop Drinking Cow’s Milk

Thanks to the dairy industry’s massive PR machine, cow’s milk has long been touted as the go-to source for calcium. But look past the spin and it’s easy to see that milk does a body bad. If you’ve “got milk” (and cheese, yogurt, and ice cream)

Plant-Based Meat Market to Almost Double in Value Despite Recent Drop in Sales

🌱 A report has predicted that the global plant-based meat market will grow from $7.5 billion in 2021 to $15.8 billion in 2028 — almost doubling in value. 🌎 A significant CAGR of around 15% is predicted over the forecast period, with growth said to be largely driven by concerns about

Bell Peppers…

🫑 This demonstrates how c.50% of an average crop can be lost due to the high costs of harvesting and sorting due to low retailer price offers that don’t currently make it a viable option. 🗑️ This is further heightened by the food waste lost to the high retailer specification

Which food waste produces the most methane in a landfill when it is isolated from oxygen?

Organic materials such as food waste are responsible for producing the most methane emissions inside a landfill when they are isolated from oxygen. When organic matter decomposes in the absence of oxygen, it undergoes anaerobic digestion, a process that produces methane as a byproduct. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas

All of this food would typically go to landfill where it would create methane gas.

0:00/1× 🗑️ If you know anything about climate change — you know that we need to stop methane immediately as it is way more potent than CO2! 🍈 Do Good Foods upcycles all of this into dried animal feed which after human donations can occur is the next best usage of

One of India’s trash mountains is on fire again and residents are choking on its toxic fumes

🗑️ Simple solutions exist. This article makes is sound like dump fires are an occasional thing. These fires happen ALL THE TIME in hot weather environements. 🌲 Why? Because food and other organic waste, when it goes anaerobic (without oxygen), produces not just methane, but also alcohol. Under the right conditions, especially

The meat industry continues to fiercely lobby against plant-based options

🚨 Ridiculous! The meat industry continues to fiercely lobby against plant-based options being able to compete on a fair basis - this time in Italy. They are insulting consumers' intelligence, who they claim will not possibly be able to understand that a clearly labelled plant-based "burger” “bacon” or “sausage”

DUMPSTER DIVE DELICIOUSNESS

🗑️ The first three facts listed in Rob Greenfield’s Huffington Post article, “The Food Waste Fiasco: You Have to See It to Believe it,” are jaw-drop worthy enough but Rob, an eco-adventurer, environmental activist and entrepreneur, went a few steps further. Rob travelled the US relying almost entirely on the

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Why is urban nature so important?

🌲 UN Biodiversity visuals by Holly Draws