Sentences with phrase «produce food scraps»
Humans living together in a group produce food scraps and other waste, which represents a valuable food source for animals.
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We have to make sure that packaging, especially for example for produce, is sufficient to get it there safely; and if it's not... it not only is contributing to the lack of food to some regions, but it's also contributing to a huge amount of scrap or waste in our system.»
Food scraps, alternatively, decay and start producing methane at about the same rate in all regions.
Without modern sanitation, life would be nightmarish — human and animal waste would fester on the streets along with garbage and food scraps, producing a stench so foul that you'd want to keep your windows closed even in the sweltering heat of summer (for the moment, envision lacking the luxury of air conditioning).
Companies like LeanPath, a scale - like technology that measures and tracks scraps and is helping IKEA cut down on its food waste by 50 percent by 2020, and consulting services like Foodprint Group, which is currently strategizing how food mecca Eataly can produce less waste while remaining cost efficient, are getting the word out that less food wasted means less money wasted, too.
Just as cats 10,000 years ago were attracted to the easy, consistent food source that the first human settlements provided (see The Natural History of the Cat), feral cats today scavenge on the scraps that all human habitats inevitably produce.1 A study of a feral cat colony in Brooklyn found that the cats depended more on local garbage for food than on either prey or food provided by caregivers, and that the neighborhood produced enough garbage to feed three times more cats than actually lived in that area.2
Grub Composting Produces Animal Feed In a presentation that was originally prepared for Will Allen's Growing Power, Robert Olivier of Compost Mania talks us through his «BioPod Plus», a product designed for turning food scraps directly into insect larvae, which can then be used to feed a wide variety of animals including chickens, fish and other pets.
At the base of the Bay Bridge in Oakland, the district feeds a mix of sludge, commercial food scraps, and other organic waste into an array of 12 gigantic anaerobic digesters that produce methane, also called biogas.
About half of that waste comes from food scraps and other organic materials, producing methane and other greenhouse gases as it decomposes.
In an ideal outcome, Nanologix would be able to utilize a relatively benign species from this group of anaerobes to produce hydrogen from food scraps and industrial waste heat, such as from electrical utilities.
All food scraps and grass clippings produced on the island will be composted for use by the farm.