Comments on: Love Food, Hate Waste

By: Kim - Best Restaurant Chelsea

Kim - Best Restaurant Chelsea — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 08:50:30 +0000

one cool technology! We need that spread across continents. Our clients should consider doing the same. Thank you for taking the initiative. thumbs up!!

By: linda

linda — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:54:57 +0000

Your love affair with food is commendable. This is really called for a this time. We need to recycle and lessen our waste production. So I appreciate your love affair to food as I too have a love affair with food.

By: mike

mike — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:07:25 +0000

it is scandalous….here in the UK we have three big wheelie bins for recycling, and yet even vegetable peelings we cannot put in the “green bin” for garden refuse it has to go to landfill.

Take any of my favorite recipe and you are hard put to find any of them you can cook in one or two portions without leaving waste, of half a pepper, an onion or so on…

By: BeWaterWise Rep

BeWaterWise Rep — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:16:49 +0000

Great to see a detailed explanation of what happens to food waste. Since we are talking about climate change and how food waste plays its role, did you know that we can also contribute a bit by what we eat to water shortage issue? Water is consumed more to cook meat, good to go vegetarian once in a while – completely giving it up would be too much to ask and difficult too. Its also good for our health to go vegetarian sometimes. Since water shortage is becoming a serious issue, especially in SoCal, we need to make amends in some way to address the issue. Visit http://bit.ly/7npfU for some water saving tips.

By: Amrita

Amrita — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:08:53 +0000

Hi !

Food crisis in incresing around the world and this also forces us to think about the amount of food we waste. Food waste is caused by cooking too much and then throwing away.

Many people think that throwing food in the landfill is simply fine …It’s biodegradable after all, so doesn’t create problems but, but it is neccessary to make them know that the biodegradable food gets wrapped inside a non biodegradable plastic bag. If the air doesn’t get to the food then it won’t rot down and In the absence of oxygen, biodegradable materials decompose and produce methane gas, which contributes to global warming.

With Regards
Amrita
http://www.quality-web-solutions.com

By: Cara Peck

Cara Peck — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:27:13 +0000

It has been great to read the comments over recycling. I’m glad the blog solicited some discussion! It is true that composting our food waste is needed in order to return nutrients back to the soil and sustainably produce food. Anaerobic digestion can be a precursor to composting. The process will first capture the energy and the residual can be further processed for composting. Methane is emitted by this process, but it is in an enclosed vessel, so the methane is captured and used for an energy source. Lastly, Bum-Chong, please feel free to email me at Peck.Cara@epa.gov if you would like tips on how to help your workplace become more sustainable.

By: Faye

Faye — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:40:41 +0000

While using anaerobic respiration to create can create beneficial biogas, it should be considered carefully. Reduction can be simply defined as “gain of electrons”, where oxygen is typically the electron acceptor in aerobic conditions. In the absence of oxygen (anaerobic conditions) microbes must find an alternate electron acceptor. These reactions create dangerous greenhouse gasses such as Methane (CH4) and Nitrogen Oxides (NOx), which are several times more effective than Coarbon Dioxide (CO2).

CO2 + 8H+ + 8e- ———-> CH4

NO3- + 2H+ 2e- ———–> NO2- +H2O

By: Henry

Henry — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:02:04 +0000

The idea of composting waste is something we’ve put to practice in recent months. Also, you can always feed leftovers to pets! With enough planning and forethought I have been able to greatly reduce any leftover wastes we have.

By: Bum-Chong Yoo

Bum-Chong Yoo — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:26:41 +0000

Well, recycling 100 percent of industrial garbage is a bit far-fetched for now. I believe there are numerous projects within organizations that are delving in total recycling. Any one as a consumer can help bring about awareness of the issue, so a patient combined effort is necessary. However, if part of the waste can be converted into energy through biogas as Environmental Scientist Peck mentioned, a reduction in fossil fuels is possible.

Nevertheless, I will look into the use of biogas. Thanks for your input, Johnny.

By: Johnny R.

Johnny R. — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:18:38 +0000

So, the question is: does EPA have a program for recycling 100% of
industrial waste and consumer trash and sludge, or must we wait for
an ecocidal disaster?