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Reducing Food Waste: Campbell’s Soup to Turn Scraps into Power

How cool is this? Campbell’s Soup Company is combatting food waste by turning food scraps from its soup production into biogas to power its facilities. Reducing food waste on the consumer level is...

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Weekend Food Project: Making Homemade Chicken Broth

I’m a DIY kinda’ girl. I’ve experimented with homemade cheese, making butter from cream, and crafting my own granola bars. But until recently, I had never made chicken broth from scratch. Because I’m...

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Resolve To Eat More Expired Food In The New Year

On a recent trip to visit my folks, we laughed at my mom after learning that the majority of her bottled salad dressings and condiments had “expired” years earlier. As we made fun, she argued that the...

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Food Waste + Dumpster Divers + Chef = Inspiration

“The food that we throw away in Europe would be enough twice to feed all the hungry of the world.” This is the nugget (loosely translated from German to English by Google Translate, but without loss...

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Introducing WeHatetoWaste.com

Green marketing guru, Jacqueline Ottman has a new project: consumer-focused blog WeHatetoWaste.com. I am a bit obsessed with reducing food waste and all the groovy technology being developed to...

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Easy Tip to Reduce Food Waste: The Kitchen Chalkboard

We’re all doing our best to reduce food waste, and sometimes it’s the simplest solutions that can make a big difference. You know this feeling, right? You’re looking for something in the produce...

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Reduce Waste on the Go: The Purse Napkin

Need an easy way to reduce waste when you’re eating on the go? Meet my purse napkin! When we talk about food waste, we normally mean actual food getting wasted. While this is a huge problem, spoiled...

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The New Think, Eat, Save Campaign Wants To Help You “Reduce Your Foodprint”

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and their partners just launched a new campaign to help the world get out of its  immense food waste...

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Food Waste Tip: Making the Most of Bottled Salad Dressing

Running out of your favorite bottled salad dressing? Here’s a simple food waste tip to make it last just a little bit longer! I know, I know, I should be whipping up my salad dressings from scratch....

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How to Keep Herbs Fresh: A Quick Kitchen Tip!

The CSA I belong to is great about delivering fresh herbs, but those suckers seem to get wilty or mushy so fast in the crisper! Luckily, a friend hipped me to this simple way to keep herbs fresh....

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Infographic: What’s The Shelf Life Of Common Foods?

Seeking to waste less food? Learn what those “expiration” dates really mean and where to store food in the frig to maximize its lifespan. Use a chalkboard to remind yourself of the perishables you...

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EcoScraps’ Organic, Poop-Free Potting Soil Soon To Be Available Nationwide

Last fall, we introduced you to EcoScraps — a Utah-based startup founded by two young men determined to reduce the amount of food America wastes. Realizing much of the food we waste comes from large...

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Three Entrepreneurial Companies Tackle Food Waste

When I plow through my hundreds of emails every week, I usually find at least one (usually several) articles or blog posts about food waste. This is a good thing. We’ve shared the scary statistics:...

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The Last Straw: Replace Plastic with Reusable Glass (+ a Giveaway!)

We pollute America with an estimated 500 million plastic straws every day — enough to fill more than 127 school buses — every single day. The Plastic Straw Problem Those petroleum-based,...

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Avoid Produce Waste with a “Nose-To-Tail” Approach

Oooh, it’s that time of the year! Farmers markets are reopening and going strong as early spring produce comes of age. But as I’ve started to buy more of this good stuff, I’ve noticed an increase in...

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Five Intriguing Techniques To Keep Your Produce Fresh

Tossing too much of the gorgeous produce you’ve brought home from the farmer’s market? I recently came across a post with intriguing ideas for extending the freshness of your produce picks. Out of ten...

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Instagram Your Food Packaging For A Cleaner Planet

Litterati makes use of Instagram in a brilliant yet simple and philanthropic way. It makes you smile, and it’s social media at its best. The goal of Litterati is simple: Find a piece of trash...

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American Food Waste Facts

In the United States we are lucky to have a surplus of food that is easy for almost everyone to access. However, this has led to a unique problem. The United States and several other countries have...

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Cost to Dumpster Dive in Spain? $1000

In many parts of Spain – including the capital city of Madrid – dumpster diving carries a hefty fine. Madrid was the first Spanish city to outlaw dumpster diving back in 2009, but since then many...

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A #LITTERATI Filled Hike at Mohonk Mountain House

My family recently went to Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz, NY.  One of our favorite things to do at the vast historic hotel is the legendary “rock scramble.” This two-hour hike has you squeezing...

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