Tag: food waste
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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…
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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…
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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…
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‘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…
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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…