YouTube description: Though France has banned supermarkets from throwing out food, 150,000 metric tons of bread wind up in the trash every year. Le Crumbler grinds old bread into fine crumbs to be used... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 year 4 months 2 weeks ago • 274 views • 5:21

Watch a maggot ‘fountain’ devour waste food. Findings could help grub farmers using human food waste to produce larvae-based chicken feed.

posted by Mordhaus 3 years 6 months 1 week ago • 18 views • 1:27

Right now in the U.S. the dairy industry is working to enforce the rules about what products can call themselves milk. They are making the case that nut milks aren't really milks, because they don't come... continue reading

posted by Mekanikal 4 years 2 weeks ago • 4,443 views • 3:17

"Food labels don’t mean what you think they mean. ... When people clean out their fridge, they look at whatever date is on the label and throw it in the trash if it’s past that date. But the chances... continue reading

posted by ant 4 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 89 views • 4:41

YouTube description: Using city rooftops to grow healthy sustainable food. Learn how Lufa Farms is using technology and automation to grow fresh food daily with no soil, no pesticides, less water and zero waste. ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months ago • 1,214 views • 10:50

"Eat your peas! It’s the easiest way to fight climate change. This is the fourth episode of Climate Lab, a six-part series produced by the University of California in partnership with Vox. Hosted... continue reading

posted by ant 5 years 3 months 1 week ago • 294 views • 9:22

YouTube description: More than one thousand commercial trucks cross the U.S.-Mexico border in Nogales, Ariz. every day, many of them filled with produce. Much of that food would go to waste if not for... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 2 months 1 week ago • 424 views • 2:55

I built a fenced enclosure and cultivated sweet potatoes (from civilisation) and yams (from the wild) in it. I originally had a small 3X3 m garden behind the wattle and daub hut that already had some sweet... continue reading

posted by cricket 6 years 2 months 4 weeks ago • 948 views • 6:26

"Nearly half of produce grown in the U.S. never makes it to the dinner table. Between price fluctuations and "defective" pieces of fruit, PBS Newshour looks into our epidemic of waste." -- PBS

posted by Warren E. Hale (MrFisk) 7 years 1 month 4 weeks ago • 208 views • 9:06

YT: Intermarché launched the Inglorious Fruits&Vegetables, a film, print, poster and radio campaign, celebrating the beauty of the Grotesque Apple, the Ridiculous Potato, the Hideous Orange, the Failed... continue reading

posted by mintbbb 8 years 1 month ago • 340 views • 2:31

1/3 of all food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted before it is eaten, the UN's Food and Agricultural Organization estimates. Here's a quick look at some of the numbers behind that stark reality.

posted by Joe Motion (lurgee) 8 years 1 month 1 week ago • 401 views • 1:03

I was thinking about a year or so ago, what a great idea it would be for supermarkets to sell food in bulk so that customers can bring their own containers, thereby doing away with wasteful packaging.... continue reading

posted by persephone 1 decade 1 year 1 month 3 weeks ago • 776 views • 1:18

How much food (and water) do "western" countries waste?

posted by hpqp 1 decade 1 year 2 months 2 weeks ago • 736 views • 2:33

Grocery stores around the country are filling their dumpsters with food. Not rotten, spoiled food, but billions of pounds of good, edible food. Why? Because the expiration date is nearing? Because it... continue reading

posted by Sagemind 1 decade 1 year 3 months 2 weeks ago • 1,602 views • 2:46

Environmentally Conscious Organization (e.c.o.), Incorporated is a design, licensing firm and manufacturing firm dedicated to improving outmoded, outdated and wasteful food packaging. e.c.o., Incorporated... continue reading

posted by Warren E. Hale (MrFisk) 1 decade 3 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 2,030 views

A shocking 1/3 of all food produced is thrown away as waste. In this clip, restaurant critic Giles Coren demonstrates the amount of good food we waste by assembling a large lunch of perfectly edible food... continue reading

posted by deputydog 1 decade 5 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 1,130 views