New Scientist: Stop wasting food, save the world’s energy.
”Initiatives targeted at consumers could also have ripple-out effects: not only will educating people about food waste reduce pressure on their wallets, it would also lead to fewer trips to the store, saving on gasoline and reducing carbon emissions.” I think the whole grocery system needs to be revamped. You can watch stockers around here pile bags and bags of spoiled produce, putting them doggedly out for sale without regard to their inedibility.
Comments:
I miss glass containers for so many reasons. I know they’re heavy, but milk/juices contained within taste *so much better*.
You can look at cranberry juice, for instance, on grocery shelves. The plastic-bottled ones look brownish, and taste rancid. The glass ones remain beautifully red, and taste fresh. I consider that definitive proof that the ‘glass is best’ theory is *fact*, not a mind-game.
Look, the next time you go to a supermarket.
The thing that’s been nagging at me for several years now is the waste of resources for containers. All those tins, bottles, jars and bags used once and tossed; don’t bring up recycling because most people don’t recycle the majority of them and so far as I know the recycling process is not a net gain for anything other than paper.
Years ago when dairies delivered milk to homes they picked up the empties for reuse. Why can’t we get reusable containers that you bring back to the market for return to vendors? The delivery trucks go back empty now, so there’s no extra energy expenditure.