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Canadian News
Okanagan teen to take food waste petition to Ottawa
globalnews.ca - By Megan Turcato
Less than a year after launching his online petition, a 17-year-old Kelowna high school student is preparing to deliver the document in person to …
General Mills
The number one thing tossed in landfills will shock you
foodsided.com - Cristine Struble
Landfills are filled with all types of waste. The number one thing that fills a landfill is something that could be totally preventable. Do you know …
inhabitatadded this to MIMESIS
Sculpture
Dimitri Tsykalov Carves Fruits and Vegetables into Creepy-Yet-Still-Delicious Skulls
inhabitat - Inhabitat
1/8 Dimitri Tsykalov Carves Fruits and Vegetables into Creepy Skulls Artist Dimitri Tsykalov has created an incredible series of skulls by carefully …
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles
Stolen strawberries lead Glendale police to arrest L.A. man
Los Angeles Times - By Andy Nguyen
DNA evidence from strawberries that were stolen and eaten in Glendale helped authorities track down a suspected burglar in Los Angeles. Michael Ramirez Arriaga, 23, was arrested at his L.A. home by the
Posters
Vintage war propaganda posters show the food battles on the home front
chron.com - Craig Hlavaty
Image 1 of / 29 Caption Close See posters from World War I and World War II that encouraged farming and healthy eating... When most people think of World …
Jamie Oliver
Brewery creates beer out of leftover bread to tackle food waste
metro.co.uk - Hattie Gladwell
An island brewery is tackling food waste by making beer from leftover loaves of bread. Bute Brew Co, use surplus bread donated from their local Co-op …
World Economic Forum
This US city has banned restaurants from throwing away food waste
weforum.org - Koty Neelis
Restaurants in Austin can't throw away food anymore. A new law starting this month requires restaurants to compost food scraps or give them away, as …
James Beard Foundation
Will Silicon Valley “Disrupt” Food Waste?
nonprofitquarterly.org - By Sheela Nimishakavi | 3 hours ago
Share1 Tweet Email Share 1 Shares By Fructibus [CC0], from Wikimedia Commons October 10, 2018; Eater Few issues show the dichotomy between the “haves” and …
EPA
Our most critical classroom: The Cafeteria
worldwildlife.org
When we waste food, we waste the energy, water and often wildlife habitat that is sacrificed to grow that food – which means a food waste curriculum …
Butternut
Fight food waste and make the most of your winter squash!
givinggarden.io - by Luke Loggins
In most regions of the country, winter time means no sun and no to low yield. However, we Californians are extremely lucky to be gardening in a …
Jamie Oliver
Jamie Oliver is hosting a pop up food waste cafe | London Evening Standard
standard.co.uk - Lizzie Thomson
Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver is hosting a pop-up cafe to teach Londoner's how to fight food waste. The TV personality will run the the Fresh Thinking …
Food Industry
Fighting food waste to curb climate change
fooddive.com
The World Wildlife Fund's Pete Pearson discusses how to limit food waste and fight climate change in order to decrease greenhouse gases.
Waste Management
The Future of Plastic Cutlery: Bioplastics vs Plastic
bioplasticsnews.com - By Axel Barrett
The main reason for this EU legislation and the first sentence of the proposal is … the amount of plastic marine litter in oceans and seas is growing …
Tesco
Tesco has removed 'best before' labels from 116 products in bid to scrap 'confusing' advice
chroniclelive.co.uk - Simon Meechan
Tesco has scrapped best before dates from a further 116 products five months after removing the labels from 70 lines. The supermarket says it is only …
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Food Industry
So toasted! This beer is made from would-be food waste
USA TODAY
Jeremy Hunt
Chilled: Inmates Use Trash Cans To Break Out Of Prison [Video]
2oceansvibe.com - Carrie
Two inmates at a Kentucky prison escaped using one of the oldest tricks in the book, proving that simpler is always better when evading the …
Reuters
United Nations
'War' on food waste can save money and boost profits, tech firm says
Reuters - by Lee Mannion @leemannion
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Wasteless, an Israeli firm seeking to reduce food waste and save consumers money, won $2 million in funding on Tuesday, as more businesses seek to cut food losses
Kentucky
Inmates Escape Kentucky Jail in Trash Bin
nbcsandiego.com - www.nbcsandiego.com
Two inmates were caught on camera escaping a Kentucky jail in a food waste trash bin. Both were caught by police two days later.
Zero Waste
City of Cambridge Urges Residents to Recycle, Compost As Part of 'Zero Waste' Initiative
thecrimson.com - www.thecrimson.com
“Zero Waste importantly does not mean zero trash, but it does try to bring us to a more sustainable waste diversion and recycling and reduction …
Advertising (UK)
How Hotpoint turned to Jamie Oliver for food waste mission
campaignlive.co.uk - www.campaignlive.co.uk
The home appliances brand joined forces with the celebrity chef for the finale of its Fresh Thinking for Forgotten Food campaign
New York City
Using the food wasted in New York City
phys.org - Steve Cohen
Knowing that people in our own city are hungry and that children go to sleep without enough to eat is a moral outrage in a place as rich as this. One …
NPR
Nonprofits
Chef Massimo Bottura On Challenging Tradition And Combating Hunger
NPR
Chef Massimo Bottura's restaurant Osteria Francescana in Modena, Italy currently holds the top spot on the list of the world's 50 best restaurants. But his creative and contemporary take on Italian cuisine
Sustainability
Event Will Demonstrate Ways To Make Normally Discarded Food Delicious
kpbs.org - Brooke Ruth, Maureen Cavanaugh
Davin Waite, executive chef of Wrench and Rodent in Oceanside, is one of the chefs taking part in an event Sunday at Liberty Station celebrating …
San Antonio
New subscription service delivers 'ugly produce' in fight against food waste
kvue.com - www.kvue.com
In just its first week of launching in Austin, nearly 2,000 people signed up for an Imperfect Produce subscription.
Martha Stewart Living added this to The Simple Life
James Beard Foundation
Here’s an Easy Way to Help Waste Less Food Everyday
Martha Stewart Living - Alexandra Lim-Chua Wee
Get on board with Waste Not Wednesdays! A new food waste-fighting initiative from the James Beard Foundation aims to help and support home cooks and culinary professionals. The Waste Not campaign launches
Travel (UK)
Shoreditch has a new pop-up cafe inspired by food waste
timeout.com
In London alone, food waste amounts to around £840 a year per family, generating approximately 19 million tonnes of CO2 emissions. If we dealt with …
African Elephants
‘Slim My Waste’ campaign wins third award
bristol247.com - Nancy Serle
The post ‘Slim My Waste’ campaign wins third award appeared first on Bristol 24/7.
Forbesadded this to Food utilization, waste and loss
Nestlé
Social Enterprise FoodCloud Partners With Nestlé Ireland To Tackle Food Waste
Forbes - Elizabeth Rushe
Irish social enterprise company FoodCloud is teaming up with Nestlé Ireland. Not only will Nestlé Ireland now direct all its surplus food to FoodCloud, it will also pay FoodCloud for every pallet of goods
Toronto
Tackling food waste: Local organization opens community fridges in the GTA
cbc.ca
In the alleyway behind Ali Baba restaurant in Parkdale, there is a small industrial fridge with a sign that reads: "Take what you need, share with …
The Guardian
Bread
Using their loaf: baker reuses leftovers to make 'waste bread'
The Guardian - Rebecca Smithers
A heady but pleasant whiff of freshly baked bread wafts enticingly from the clutch of units on an industrial estate in north London. Behind closed doors, final production tests are underway on what Gail’s