Tag Archives: food waste

An Embarrassment of Riches

Posted on October 12, 2011 by

It seems I’m not alone in trying to eliminate food waste from our caloric cycle. I’ve still been using the kitchen compost bin, although I stopped tracking the daily amount when our kitchen scale broke. Without taking the time to … Continue reading →

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Waste Land, Revised

Posted on April 8, 2011 by

I have revised food waste data for the past-what is it now, nine weeks? Yes, nine weeks. If you click on the link and go to page 2 of the document, you’ll see a decent graph of the data. I … Continue reading →

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Waste-land

Posted on March 7, 2011 by

I’ve got a month’s worth of food-waste data, and the average is holding fairly steady at just over 10 lbs (~4.5 kg): There was a noticeable drop this past week, which I’m at a loss to explain. I’m quite sure … Continue reading →

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Food Waste, Week 2

Posted on February 21, 2011 by

I tallied up 12.4 lbs. of food waste from last week, up from the 10.1 lbs. of the week before. I think that much of the difference is due to pineapple and melon rinds from fruit we had bought for … Continue reading →

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