Tag Archives: food waste

EcoScraps: New ideas in recycling

A company changing the way we view trash and waste From my column at Communities in The Washington Times WASHINGTON DC, February 26, 2013 – Waste is rampant in our society.  Americans produce over 200 million tons of trash every year- enough to fill a major league football stadium twice a day.  According to some […]

February 27

13,200 boxes of Girl Scout cookies destroyed: Food waste in America

Wasted Girl Scout cookies are just the tip of the huge pile of wasted food in the U.S. From my column at Communities @ Washington Times WASHINGTON DC, February 17, 2013 – A report of 13,200 boxes of Girl Scout cookies destroyed in a Riverside, California warehouse before being taken to a local landfill has […]