#food waste disposal

[delicatelysublimeforester]

Preserving Our Afforestation Areas: A Call to Responsible Outdoor Behavior

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#biodegradable waste #biodiversity #collaborative conservation efforts #Dutch elm disease prevention #ecological footprint #ecological integrity #Ecosystem Preservation #environmental awareness #environmental conservation #environmental degradation #Environmental Impact Assessment #environmental stewardship #fire ban #food waste disposal #garbage disposal #George Genereux Urban REgional Park #habitat conservation #habitat restoration #inclusive spaces #Invasive Species #leave no trace #litter collection #litter observation #Litter Removal #park etiquette #park regulations #pet waste management #pollution prevention #recreational spaces #responsible outdoor behavior

[endfoodwasteday]

Helpful tips for saving food waste.

Measure out food portions before starting to cook.

The most thrown away food item us bread, consider freezing leftovers as soon as possible

#food loss and waste #legislation #food waste disposal #Waste Framework Directive #wasted food

[matetaylor]

#food waste removal #food waste disposal #septictank

[reasonsforhope]

"Of South Korea’s countless kilograms of annual food scraps, very few will ever end up in a landfill. This is because of two reasons—the first is that it’s been illegal since 2005, and the second is because they have perhaps the world’s most sophisticated food waste disposal infrastructure.

While representing a significant burden on the economy, the food waste disposal nevertheless produces ample supplies of animal feed, fertilizer, and biogas that heats thousands of homes.

As the New York Times’ John Yoo and Chang Lee reported from Seoul, South Korean cuisine tends to lend itself to creating food scraps, since many staple dishes come with anywhere from a few to a few dozen sides.

With the culture erring on the side of abundance rather than restraint, many of these small dishes of tofu, kimchi, bean sprouts, and other bites would be tossed in the landfill if it wasn’t illegal to do so.

The government put the ban hammer on it because the mountainous terrain isn’t ideal for landfill construction.

Instead, restauranteurs and street hawkers pay the municipality for a sticker that goes on the outside of special bins. Once filled with food scraps, they are left on the road for collectors in the morning who take 90% of all such waste in the country to specialized collection facilities.

At apartments and among residential housing areas, hi-tech food waste disposal machines are operated by a keycard owned by residents under contract with the disposal companies.

Once taken to the recycling facilities, the food is sorted for any non-food waste that’s mixed in, drained of its moisture, and then dried and baked into a black dirt-like material that has a dirt-like smell but which is actually a protein and fiber-rich feed for monogastric animals like chickens or ducks.

This is just one of the ways in which the food scraps are processed. Another method uses giant anaerobic digestors, in which bacteria break down all the food while producing a mixture of CO2 and methane used to heat homes—3,000 in a Seoul suburb called Goyang, for example. All the water needed for this chemical process comes from the moisture separated from the food earlier.

The remaining material is shipped as fertilizer to any farms that need it.

All the water content is sent to purification facilities where it will eventually be discharged into water supplies or streams.

While one such plant was shut down from locals complaining about the unbearable smell, many plants are odorless, thanks to a system of pipes built into the walls that eliminate it via chemical reaction.

It’s the way South Korea does it. Sure, it costs them around $600 million annually, but they have many admirers, including New York City which hopes to implement similar infrastructure in the coming years."

-via Good News Network, June 15, 2023

#south korea #korean food #kimchi #bean sprouts #food waste #landfill #circular economy #sustainability #waste disposal #sanitation #good news #hope #hope posting #new york city #restaurants

[elvencantation]

i, for one, love my carnivorous sink. like my own personal sarlacc. very convenient

#insinkerator #food waste disposer #sink garbage disposer #idk #i just love her #blue rambles #carnivorous sink #my name's carnieface and i live in your sink #thats dumb but oh well maybe one person will find it funny

[rapidreptile]

my bus ride home has me stop at the mall... this is dangerous

#I can't afford to anyways but any disposable income is about to be wasted at the food court #yipeee

[bunnyb34r]

Mom got two more tubs of salad for me and both were rotten as well. I'm taking this as a sign to lay off the salads for awhile :/

I only got 3 salads out of all that too. Usually I get 4 per tub. This is disgusting

#marquilla #josie's farms: yeah sure throw in the rotting leaves. we're organic. no food waste! (on our part bc we're not the ones throwing #it away ;) ;) ) #i washed what i could salvage really well but uh pray/send out good vibes that i dont get food poisoning 😬 #also all that salad trash clogged my garbage disposal and it shot out at me (twice) so i had to shower AGAIN #but! i get to wear my jack o lantern shirt :D bc i forgot it earlier i get it now! and i used this lotion i used to really love after and #it's so strong smelling it's so nice 🤤 #anyway now im tired

[aquitainequeen]

Of South Korea’s countless kilograms of annual food scraps, very few will ever end up in a landfill. This is because of two reasons—the first is that it’s been illegal since 2005, and the second is because they have perhaps the world’s most sophisticated food waste disposal infrastructure. While representing a significant burden on the economy, the food waste disposal nevertheless produces ample supplies of animal feed, fertilizer, and biogas that heats thousands of homes. As the New York Times’ John Yoo and Chang Lee reported from Seoul, South Korean cuisine tends to lend itself to creating food scraps, since many staple dishes come with anywhere from a few to a few dozen sides. With the culture erring on the side of abundance rather than restraint, many of these small dishes of tofu, kimchi, bean sprouts, and other bites would be tossed in the landfill if it wasn’t illegal to do so. The government put the ban hammer on it because the mountainous terrain isn’t ideal for landfill construction. Instead, restauranteurs and street hawkers pay the municipality for a sticker that goes on the outside of special bins. Once filled with food scraps, they are left on the road for collectors in the morning who take 90% of all such waste in the country to specialized collection facilities.

Read more from Andy Corbley!

#oh brave new world #food recycling #food waste #waste disposal #south korea

[ophiuranesque]

spent all last night creating a fictional disease so i might as well post this (insane ramblings in tags)

#my art #ocs #fuck backgrounds this is the best youll get from me #scroll down if you wanna see me ramble ab this #its called BHCD-1 #its the product of a major corporation going unchecked and neglecting the bare minimum safety requirements for hazardous waste #basically this huge company that owns practically everything #controls all the food production in an america that is under a food scarcity crisis #this was brought ab due to temperatures being too high for regular food growth #but theres a limited ammount of space where food can be produced since it has to be in a controlled enviroment #so even this company is having trouble producing enough food to satiate enough people for there to not be regular cases of starvation #the company finds this backrooms esque place #which seemingly stretches endlessly #and figure thats a good place to utilize for food production as its a steady temperature with little variation #however they find this place filled with large quantities of this dark tarry waste product that they cant identify #maybe someone outside of their company would be able to but they keep it under wraps out of fear of getting shut down #they begin to recruit people with various environmental science degrees to dispose of the waste #figuring that they will be able to handle it better and that they can not have much competition or kickback this way #bc more people who've signed ndas means less people to dispute them once they eventually leave the company #also the company promises food security to the families of these prospective employees given they live on site and continue working #so new employees come in like crazy bc everyone is starving #and about a month into the cleaning operation someone gets sick #theyre discovered bc they seemingly had a nervous breakdown #the company realizes this is not the case and takes the person for observation #they die #the company is like oh shit and gives everyone pto #under the guise of training more employees #they dont tell anyone the person has died #they cut the person open and find their lungs are caked in the tarry substance they've been removing from the location #and had begun to leech to nearby tissue

[redxriiot]

Something something, being in a relationship with a more adjusted Traitor/villain!Kiri means dealing with the fact that yer fridge may end up having human body parts in it from time to time

#hc #//Mans can't eat a whole sb in one sitting; sometimes brings that shit to his special hiding place for laters if he's allowed to keep #cannibalism mention tw #//I say 'more adjusted' bc before he's accepted the fact; being a villain or the fact that he eats people #//Mans would just tear the stiff to shreds; panic/get yelled at then dispose #//Once he's more used to it; he goes back to his usual 'welp; waste not whatnot' #//Hates wasting food; no matter what it is; so he'll ask for help getting it back to base #//The thought just started out with me mulling over villain!krdk ngl #//Bc I like the idea of poor v!deku nust tryna get a snack only to meet a faceful of guts in a bag #gore mention tw #//Mans ia just 'Wtf Ei; AGAIN???' while Kiri tries to argue well where ELSE can he store it??? #//Works best with villain!sunr.iot tho I think #//Bc Ei can get his fill of fresh meat; and Tama can benefit of the Quirks said victims had #//Honestly more incentive for Ei to go after people; tbh. Then they fight over portions fjbfb #//Bc Tama needs the QUIRKS dammit. but Ei's a real hungry lad too! #//They prolly divide the shit based on how useful Tama can make the abilities #//Boom; bonding right there. them taking time out of their days to figure Quirk uses #//A twisted spin on their off duty activities in hero verse #//Y'know what; I could vibe with that #//Platonic or more shippy vibes villain!sunr.iot with this idea #//Two horrible roomies fighting over who gets what rights to what stiff #//What will win; Ei's insistence on having priority bc HE brought them home or Tama's need for new powers #//Obvi Tama; but Ei still puts up a fight every time (Tama always wins) #;mun has spoken #//Idk; thinking shit like this rn bc I saw a thing #//And bc am at a wedding party and the overwhelming racket of it all is making me wanna go feral #//So I'll let him do that lol #//Not that I have wifi to DO that the way I wanna; so it's just a hc/idea post now

[anthonyed]

retrospectively, what baffles me the most about last oncall is how the resident came all the way from a different zone just to order me to take blood from her patient. all while she was well aware i was heading to the phone to refer a case

i mean.

1. she has a medical assistant at her disposal

2. she herself is capable of taking the blood (which frankly if it was me, id have done myself than go wandering looking for someone else to take the blood cause waste of time)

3. she dragged my partner for the night to do her bidding already so where was he??

4. i knew instantly she was only doing this cause she was being pissy about not having any interns at her disposable so she was yapping all night and i got annoyed and told her that we're also getting flooded by cases all night long and we need our manpower too and she was obviously offended i replied such way

in the end i followed her, asked her what blood and where the colleague she borrowed from our zone and she yapped about him being MIA but the moment i stepped into the zone i saw him right fucking there so i said: "eh, he's there? ok bye." (bitch)

#what a waste of everything #i just hate the way she is so judgemental about everything like so immediate in jumping to conclusion #like. oh she couldn't see someone around so that must be the person ran away from work and lazing around #bich what made you so bitter. fuck off and grow the fuck up. you're not perfect. nobody can be the fuck around 24/7 at your disposable #we don't fucking work for your. we work for the betterment of our patient. but we also need our toilet break and food break #but she always makes it feel like such a luxury to have those when they're basic human need #catch up. time has changed now. kill your sour shrivelled mind

[endfoodwasteday]

The EU Waste Directives

Food waste costs the global economu $ 1 trillion. The average of US families spends $ 1,410 each year on food which is disposed.

Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on waste and repealing certain Directives (Text with EEA relevance)

#food loss and waste #legislation #food waste disposal #Waste Framework Directive #wasted food

[soon-palestine]

Israel is burning and bulldozing tree crops at historic rates. These trees would take years to grow back - and that's without factoring in the time it would take to detoxify the soil. (2/13)

It gets worse. 23% of greenhouses have been destroyed in their entirety. (3/13)

Destroying up to 48% of tree crops and 23% of greenhouses is a horrendous crime in itself, but, when you factor in Israel blocking food aid and literally killing food aid professionals, you start to see the scale of the crime in full. (4/13)

Look at the difference. See the land before. See it after. Do not turn away. (5/13)

Restoring the land will be profoundly difficult. The soil now contains asbestos, heavy metals, and even undetonated explosives. (6/13)

Waste disposal infrastructure is in ruins. Sewage treatment systems are failing. (7/13)

People are burning plastic to heat food. Fumes from bombs hang in the air. (8/13)

This is not "just" about nature. This is about the food and the air and the water and the land being deprived of life. It is about a whole population being denied its sustenance. (9/13)

A comprehensive report about this issue is in the Guardian. They are one of the few publications to cover the siege on Gaza from this angle. The full story is here: (10/13)

There is also some reporting on this in InsideClimateNews: (11/13)

Here at Climate Defiance we have been clear in calling for a ceasefire since October. We wage our peaceful struggle because we believe in the inherent value of humanity - and in the need to see the humanity in each other. (12/13)

We fight for thriving ecosystems because we fight for life. Both are under attack right now. Do not look away. Do not stay silent. Moments like these are a test of our moral fabric. (13/13)

#palestine #gaza #free palestine

[btreebrands]

#dubai #uae #food waste #recycling #waste #waste management #waste disposal #wasteland #plastic waste #wastewatertreatment

[vincentblackbearmediallc]

As sustainability continues to be a crucial aspect of everyday living, zero-waste products are becoming increasingly popular. By reducing waste and promoting reuse, these eco-friendly items provide an alternative to everyday disposable items. One area where zero-waste products are significantly impacting is in everyday household items and personal care.Enter bamboo steamers, which provide a healthier cooking method and champion sustainability. Steaming food is a traditional cooking method that retains the nutritional contents of vegetables, meats, and fish, while bamboo offers both durability and biodegradability. Selecting a steam cooker that caters to sustainable living begins with identifying one made from environmentally friendly materials, like bamboo.

#zero-waste #popular #alternative #disposable items #Steaming food

[siedontech]

Food waste depackaging machine Siedon

#waste disposal #food waste #waste management