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Waste Land: Does the Large Amount of Food Discarded in the U.S. Take a Toll on the Environment?

March 4, 2010 Now if this isn’t a waste:
“According to the Agriculture Department, each year Americans toss more than 25 percent, of all domestically produced food. A 2009 study showed that a quarter of U.S. water and 4 percent of U.S. oil consumption annually go into producing and distributing food that ultimately ends up [...]

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Commercial Composting: Why One Restaurant Recycles

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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 her reasons for doing so.

I started composting much of my food scraps last [...]

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Waste Not: From Commercial Trash to Garden Gold

Article by Lizzy Caston, from the Edible Portland Magazine
Photo by N. Scott Trimble
Bijou Café staff dump the contents of an indoor compost bin into a larger, outdoor bin to be picked up by their garbage hauler.
How Portland deals with its trash is changing — residentially and commercially. In May [...]

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