Food Waste Challenge
Hello, you few and faithful followers. In my last few blog posts, I had addresses how I would begin to challenge myself to generate no food waste for the duration of my Summer semester. During the entire stint, I would record what I ate, how long it took, what went to waste (if anything) as well as notes on said waste. One issue I ran into rather quickly was "what can be considered "food waste?" After eating a banana, could the peel be considered "waste"? Or what about the packaging? Residual sauce left on the sides of bowls and pans? I found it beneficial to seek out further clarification from other measures of food waste. Feeding America had reported that, as it pertains to food waste, 25 to 40% of food grown, processed, and transported in the United States will never be consumed. It is this same food, that when disposed of in a landfill to rot, produces large amounts of the methane gas that we find ravaging the atmosphere. This means a total of about 70