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Composting food waste remains your best option, study finds
2015-12-17 04:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Many people compost their food scraps and yard waste because they think it's the right thing to do. A new University of Washington study confirms that sentiment, and also calculates the environmental benefits associated with keeping these organic materials out of landfills. The biggest takeaway for residents of Seattle, San Francisco and other places that offer curbside compost pickup is to take advantage of that service -- and pat yourself on the back for using it. "You should definitely pay...
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France Passes 'Pioneering' Food Waste Bill to Ban Supermarkets From Binning Unused Food
2015-12-14 21:26:00| Waste Age
The Telegraph France is to enact a law to reduce the estimated 7 million tons of food wasted in the country each year. read more
Safe Reintroduction of Feeding Food Waste to Pigs a Sustainable Option
2015-12-11 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
EU - A new study shows that if the European Union lifted the pigswill ban imposed following 2001's foot-and-mouth disease epidemic, and harnessed technologies developed in East Asian countries for 'heat-treating' our food waste to safely turn it into pig feed, around 1.8 million hectares of land could be saved from being stripped for grain and soybean-based pig feed production - including over quarter of a million hectares of Brazilian forest and savannah.
Recycling: Food Waste For PigswillSave Threatened Forests
2015-12-10 22:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: Domestic pigs have no problem eating our leftovers, and saving food waste to feed livestock could even save vast swathes of Brazilian forest and savannah, Cambridge researchers say. However, in order to protect these threatened environments, the European Union will need to lift its ban on pigswill-feeding. The ban was originally implemented across the EU in 2002 when a U.K. farmer illegally fed uncooked food waste to his pigs, causing an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), a highly contagious...
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New Food Waste Recovery Bill Would Push Composting, Waste-to-Energy
2015-12-10 09:31:00| Waste Age
Congress is going to be pondering food waste legislation, and how composting and waste to energy can help reduce the problem. read more
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