Food Waste Focus

The New York Times recently wrote about a critical food waste sanitation problem that has developed in Egypt.  The background is that the Egyptian government required all pigs in the country to be slaughtered this past spring in a (misguided) effort to reduce swine flu risk. What they failed to realize was that these pigs were playing a [...]

Voters in the City of Seattle appear to have rejected a proposal for a 20 cent fee on all plastic and paper carry out bags.   While this doesn’t pertain directly to food waste, any foodservice operator offering take-out food products needs to pay attention to trends related to paper and plastic carry-out bags.  Given Seattle’s [...]

The UK Government just released a series of reports called Food 2030 that were prepared by the Department for the Environment,  Food & Rural Affairs. They focus on a range of food security issues, but target food waste as a major problem, noting: Reducing food waste has the potential to cut carbon emissions equal to [...]