News tagged with food waste
America's increasing food waste is laying waste to the environment
Nov 25, 2009 |
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Food waste contributes to excess consumption of freshwater and fossil fuels which, along with methane and carbon dioxide emissions from decomposing food, impacts global climate change. In a new paper published in the open-access, ...
Sweden helps SKorea convert food waste into biogas
May 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The South Korean city of Ulsan lets water generated from processing food waste run off into the ocean, which can generate methane gas harmful to the environment.
Indoor Composting With NatureMill (w/Video)
Apr 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Many people throw out organic food waste. When I do this, I feel vaguely guilty, knowing I should probably compost it for my backyard garden. However, last time we tried to compost, the neighbors ...
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Fruit and vegetable waste clogs landfills
Apr 09, 2008 |
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About 4.4 million uneaten apples are being thrown away each day in Britain, creating a mountain of landfill waste, a report reveals.
Britons waste $40 billion in food annually
Mar 03, 2008 |
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Britain is throwing away nearly half of all the food it produces, costing the nation an estimated $40 billion a year, it was reported Sunday.
Paying peanuts for clean water
Nov 08, 2007 |
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Peanut husks, one of the biggest food industry waste products, could be used to extract environmentally damaging copper ions from waste water, according to researchers in Turkey. Writing in the Inderscience publication the ...
Advance toward producing biofuels without stressing global food supply
May 07, 2009 |
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Scientists in California are reporting use of a first-of-its-kind approach to craft genetically engineered microbes with the much-sought ability to transform switchgrass, corn cobs, and other organic materials ...
Earth Day crowds leaving carbon footprints
Apr 23, 2008 |
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Environmental activists say many public Earth Day and other environmental events are leaving a trail of waste and carbon emissions.
Bio-crude turns cheap waste into valuable fuel
Feb 04, 2008 |
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CSIRO and Monash University have developed a chemical process that turns green waste into a stable bio-crude oil.
Fuel from food waste: bacteria provide power
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Jul 17, 2008 |
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Researchers have combined the efforts of two kinds of bacteria to produce hydrogen in a bioreactor, with the product from one providing food for the other. According to an article in the August issue of Microbiology Today, this t ...
Powered by olive stones? Turning waste stones into fuel
Oct 29, 2008 |
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Olive stones can be turned into bioethanol, a renewable fuel that can be produced from plant matter and used as an alternative to petrol or diesel. This gives the olive processing industry an opportunity to make valuable ...
Antibiotic resistant bacteria found in fertilizer
May 29, 2009 |
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Vancomycin resistant enterococci (VRE) have been found in sewage sludge, a by-product of waste-water treatment frequently used as a fertilizer. Researchers writing in the open access journal Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica point out the ...
Electricity from straw
Feb 03, 2009 |
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Researchers have developed the first-ever biogas plant to run purely on waste instead of edible raw materials -- transforming waste into valuable material. The plant generates 30 percent more biogas than its ...
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