food waste

A one week mini eco-challenge that asks readers to commit to wasting less food for one week. A Little Greener Every Day does monthly mini eco-challenges to get those concerned about the environment to realize that some of these problems can be tackled by individuals in a doable way. Interested, go to the blog and join in.

About 30% of all food in America goes to waste. That's a huge environmental problem. Individuals can take steps to reduce this waste.

Be in with a chance to win a bokashi bin! This will help you reduce food waste, recycle more and gain some valuable compost for your plants.

Saving the planet may well stem from the small act of many, than bigger actions undergone by the few. One restaurant chooses to participate in a city-wide program, recycling its food waste into reusable garden compost—the owner explains why. 

Collection of links around food waste in US and UK.

Eleven McDonald’s restaurants in South Yorkshire are taking part in a new recycling scheme to use waste generated from the restaurants as a source of energy. During the scheme refuse will be collected from the restaurants, treated at a state-of-the-art energy recovery facility and converted into electricity and heat.