At the latest Sustainability Unconference in San Francisco in January, Dylan Bondy, Outreach Team Lead of Imperfect Produce, gave
a talk about the food waste ecosystem, and what their company is doing to fix the problem.
Having supermodels
talk about food waste is great.»
«There is a panel where
they talk about food waste and ways not to be wasteful with things most people might throw away,» says Stephenie Medina, account supervisor at Bread and Butter Public Relations.
We have found the FLW Standard to be very helpful because it gives us a clear unambiguous way for
talking about food waste.
Not exact matches
I'm hoping this becomes a chic thing, certain celebs
talk about it and who cares who is
talking as long as they are
talking about [
food waste prevention.]»
Talking about Flexfresh Mr. Ashok Chaturvedi, Chairman & Managing Director, Uflex Limited said, «Research has proven beyond reasonable doubt that flexible packaging with features like re-closability, optimum barrier properties etc. aid in protecting
food from being
wasted.
Past judges from the DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation
talk about packaging's role in
food security and
food waste prevention.
Judges from the 2012 DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation
talk about packaging's role in
food security and
food waste prevention.
The USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion (CNPP) has developed a new infographic — Let's
Talk Trash (1 - page infographic, 2 - page infographic)-- to inform American consumers
about food loss and
waste.
Though most of us had very diverse and specific interests, we were all united under the general themes of
food security, sustainable agriculture and
food waste, and tended to have a lot to
talk about.
Finally, the attendees
talked about the power of and need for partnerships to solve the many reasons for
food waste, including sharing stories of existing efforts like the three companies in the Midwest who are splitting the cost and use of an anaerobic digester, which turns
food scraps into energy, and several
food donation groups who highlighted the effectiveness of successful partnerships.
On Oct. 6, we held a
food waste reduction summit at our offices in Washington, D.C., that brought together
food companies, sustainability specialists and government agencies to
talk about how we can reduce
food waste generation.
The second webinar in the U.S.
Food Waste Challenge Webinar series features food industry and non-profit leaders talking about how they are dealing with food wa
Food Waste Challenge Webinar series features
food industry and non-profit leaders talking about how they are dealing with food wa
food industry and non-profit leaders
talking about how they are dealing with
food wa
food waste.
Chef Nicole will
talk about how she has used
food waste sensibly and creatively.
To help inform them
about food waste, the USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion has developed a new infographic, Let's
Talk Trash, with information on
food loss and
waste facts and reduction tips.
David Rourke, RPC Corby,
talks to Packaging Europe
about the balance between convenience, preserving
food and minimising
waste.
While most nutrition writers are busy drafting articles
about how to avoid gaining weight over the holidays (been there, done that), I want to
talk about another important issue that rarely gets air time:
food waste.
What we are
talking about here is not exactly «
waste» but byproducts (from meat as well as milled grains and other sources) left over from human
food processing are found in many poor quality and even higher quality
foods, especially when the pet
food company is owned by one of the giant companies that also own plants for processing human
foods.
There's been a lot of
talk lately
about the
food crisis, and particularly linking it to growing crops for biofuels (a highly inefficient process which seems to drive prices up, particularly in US policy), but Frances More Lappe argued in her books several years ago that there is, in fact, enough
food on the planet to feed us all, but localized political troubles (grain rotting in Haitian ports), increasing desertification,
food waste, and problems with global supply chains are better explanations for why so many go hungry.
Food Tank talked with Dr. Abdou Tenkouano about the role of TEEB AgriFood in economizing the food system, reducing food waste, and optimizing the value ch
Food Tank
talked with Dr. Abdou Tenkouano
about the role of TEEB AgriFood in economizing the
food system, reducing food waste, and optimizing the value ch
food system, reducing
food waste, and optimizing the value ch
food waste, and optimizing the value chain.
But just in case you weren't quite convinced that
waste food is a real problem with real consequences, a new study is highlighting a somewhat less
talked about consequence of discarded
food — the
waste of water used to grow it.