Monday, May 19, 2008

Waste not, want not

Eye-opening story from the NYT on the amount of food Americans waste.

While there are food riots in some nations (not to mentions a lot of hungry people right here in the USA), about 27 percent of edible food winds up in landfills ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/weekinreview/18martin.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin

2 comments:

*Jen* said...

Wow.
Interesting article.

angela said...

We've been talking about composting. Reading that makes me want to get started. Maybe a community compost? We talked about a his and hers compost competition. I know I would win. ;)