DailyDirt: Making Use Of Food Waste
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A terrible amount of our food supply goes to waste. It's not just unsold produce that rots in a grocery store. All along our food chain, we throw away edible material. Efforts to reclaim those loses are sometimes met with some disgust (eg. pink slime), but finding uses for food stuff that would otherwise end up in landfill should be a noble pursuit. Here are just a few projects that could eat up some of our uneaten leftovers.- Black soldier flies could be used to eat all kinds of biowaste -- from brewer's grain (leftover from beer making) to slaughterhouse waste. These insects are more efficient than rendering plants, and then their protein-rich bodies can be fed to farm animals. [url]
- In the UK, there's a online marketplace for food that is beyond its advertised "sell by" date. The food is perfectly safe to eat, and this site was really popular during the Great Recession. [url]
- Some food waste is being processed into biofuel and other chemicals. Starbucks Hong Kong and The Climate Group are working together to find ways to re-use coffee grounds and waste baked goods. [url]
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Filed Under: biofuel, biowaste, black soldier fly, expired food, food, leftovers, rendering plant, the climate group, waste
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Food Waste
Brewers grain is not waste, but a highly concentrated feed stock in the cattle, chicken, and pig industry.
Waste in vegetables and fruit stocks in stores comes from not rotating stock.
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I've once found 70-years-old chocolate that was perfectly fine to use. Just a little whitened, thus, better to use for cooking or hot cocoa than eating directly.
Honey does bear use-by dates, for some demented reason. Honey has been found in 2000 years old roman-era galleons, still perfectly conserved. Go figure why the health authorities demand an use-by date on a product that keeps basically for ever.
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Japanese experience
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