Tag: food waste

  • Turning Food Leftovers Into Energy Fast

    A team of researchers at Cornell University has discovered a process of turning leftover food into energy much faster than already existing methods. It is a two-step process and is very efficient, since it captures virtually all the available energy. Other methods work on the basis of anaerobic digestion with bacteria slowly chipping away at…

  • Reinventing the Food Cycle

    Food going to waste is a problem in the US and elsewhere in the developed world. However, the High-solids Organic-waste Recycling System with Electrical Output device, or HORSE for short, developed by Impact Bioenergy, could go a long way towards alleviating this problem on the consumer side. HORSE is not a real living being, but…

  • Can the EU Make a Dent in Food Waste By Nixing ‘Best By’ Labels?

    This labeling change would affect foods like coffee, rice, dry pasta, hard…

  • ‘Just Eat It’: Documentary Explores Food Waste From Farm to Fridge

    What happens when two filmmakers challenge themselves to survive for six months only on discarded food? You get Just Eat It, a new documentary that explores the food waste issue from the farm all the way to a Vancouver fridge. [caption id="attachment_329377" align="alignnone" width="500"] In Just Eat It, Director and film subject Grant Baldwin found…

  • Are Food Expiration Date Labels Making You a Wasteful Person?

    By Dana Frasz Words such as convoluted, confusing, inconsistent, ineffective, disorienting, ambiguous and dizzying are not terms you want to hear associated with a system you believe is designed to guarantee food safety. Yet those are the adjectives that a recent report uses to describe the current date labeling regime in the U.S. Published by the Natural…