I'm reading in the newspaper "I have finally mastered a #TikTok recipe for bao buns – but they take almost five hours", and enjoying that I have the simplest ready-made potato salad in the fridge, left over from a museum festival. We volunteers comply with the law against food waste: we're all eating potato salad right now. 😊 Would be enough for a five hour TikTok video. 😂
Challenge: How do I eat a whole pineapple in two days? 🍍 😋
Pure luxury from the Zero Waste Box: a pineapple, lots of grapes and tens of mandarins. It's hard to believe that #supermarkets used to throw this away (which is now banned in France). A #ZeroWaste box in our #supermarket costs 3 EUR for 2 kg of "ugly" or overripe vegetables/fruits. The very ripe pineapple smells delicious!
But people got so lazy about sorting their waste (in an area renowned for its env activism & innovation, ffs) that the composting just flat banned anything but food scraps and plant cuttings. Meaning all that work to train people to frex buy compostible disposable plates & whatnot—poof—wasted.
Worse, any loads that come in with more than a certain very low level of contamination get rerouted to the landfill. >
Which I'm sadly confident is a VERY high percentage.
Which is additionally depressing/infuriating, because this would to some not-small way to addressing the topsoil problems. (Obviously there are other major factors in play, but still.)
The problem really needs to be addressed on the production side. >
(Ask me about my idea for a product underwriting system and associated regulation that results in all products having "Nutrition Facts" equivalent labels laying out the carbon footprint of the product (including packaging & transport)'s production chain, whether its inputs are extracted, recycled, or upcycled, and where the matter of which it is comprised winds up at the end of its service life.)
This is a realm in which locality can have a mitigating effect, however. When the new restrictions came into effect, I was suddenly faced with the prospect of landfilling a third of the stuff that comes out of the guinea pig's cages (leaving aside the absolute pointlessness of using our condo complex's curbside because people apparently can't see the difference between the words "Compostables", "Recycling," & "Trash"). >
(Who me, angry & bitter why do you ask?). I did some desperate internet searching, and for a miracle, found the outfit Sharewaste.com, which aims to hook people who have "waste" they need to offload with people who can actually use that waste. (I'm not sure if they act only in the compost realm; I haven't thought to check.) >
You can read/download the new UN Food Waste Index Report 2024 "Think Eat Save: Tracking Progress to Halve Global Food Waste" here: https://www.unep.org/resources/publication/food-waste-index-report-2024 "The “Solutions Focus” chapter explores effective approaches to food waste reduction around the world."
One of the most annoying things for me is the wastage of food while raising kids. Is there anything I can do about it? I hate throwing food away because my 2-year-old daughter wants it, but then doesn't eat it 😭
A few of our volunteers participated in the Erasmus+ training course “Eat your Waste”, organized by the Spanish NGO Back to the roots. There they learned a lot of things, which will materialize into many blog posts.
> More than 40% of produce in the country is lost or wasted but new research highlights how it could be a key tool in fighting rising food insecurity. One charity is leading the charge
On Saturday we visit one of our local bakeries and pick up a bag of leftover bread and cakes.
This week we got our #TooGoodToGo from the local co-op. All this for 19 kr (about 2.5 Euros)!
Too good to go has become a Danish institution. Reduce food waste, pick up some goodies, good for the planet, maybe not so good for my waistline!
Scheinbar hat #Frankreich ab dem 1. Januar 2024 die "obligatorische Kompostierung" eingeführt - und praktisch niemand hat hierzulande darüber berichtet. Warum nicht? 😑
Und warum wird bei uns nicht über sowas diskutiert bzw. entschieden? 😑
#Africa’s #Hunger Crisis Deepens as War, Climate Pile on Pain
"The region of 1.2 billion people, which is home to many of the world’s poorest communities, suffered badly as food and fuel prices surged following Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Its farmers have also been battered by #ExtremeWeather events, including droughts and flooding linked to #ClimateChange, further pressuring prices by disrupting food supplies."
"#Food production is highly vulnerable to the effects of the #climate crisis, with research suggesting that as much as a third of global food could be at risk from global heating.
The targets include:
reducing #methane emissions from #livestock by 25%;
ensuring all the world’s #fisheries are sustainably managed;
safe and affordable drinking #water for all;
halving #FoodWaste;
eliminating the use of traditional biomass for cooking.
All by 2030.
"Some states, including California and Vermont, are hoping to curb #FoodWaste through programs that convert discarded food to compost or energy. Other states have implemented programs that require grocers and other large retailers to donate #food that would be thrown away. The state of Maryland has incentivized farmers to donate excess crops by offering tax credits to those who do so. "
Bill Would Help Prevent Food Waste (urbanmilwaukee.com)
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