Food Waste
Transcript: http://sustainability.osu.edu/assets/files/zerowaste/ZeroWaste_WrapUp_Flyer.pdf Food Waste/Loss- Food that is discarded, lost, uneaten History Lesson Watch! Learn! Be Aware! Give Waste A Place! Just to the Table Food Takes Up... McDonalds Golden Corral Ask for a box immediately after receiving your food. Eat your salad first. Don't order what you know you won't eat. Just the Facts! Diversion Rate- The percentage of waste materials diverted from traditional disposal such as landfilling or incineration to be recycled, composted, or re-used. Just a 15% reduction in the U.S. food supply would save enough to feed 25 MILLION Americans! So, saving 5% of U.S. Food waste could feel all 9.6 million U.S. residents that experience hunger Household waste- $54 billion Retail waste-$44 Billion Farming waste- $38 Billion Food Waste Less Waste while Dining Out! Browns, Greens, Water After the War Baby Boomers The Great Depression "Eat Your Veggies" Food = expectation A family of 4 will waste an average of 14% of their food. Operation Big Lots! Student Night What is it? How do I Make A Compost Pile? 40%-50% of all food for harvest in the U.S. never gets eaten. American's are at the Top of the Waste Chain Kroger Starbucks Wal-Mart Donatos Gordon Food Service YOU!! Drill half-an-inch diameter holes in the bottom and sides of a plastic garbage can. Place a brick in the bottom of a larger garbage can, surround the brick with a layer of wood chips or soil, and place the smaller can inside on top of the brick. Wrap insulation around the outer can to keep the compost warm and cover the cans with a lid. Blackened Bananas and Soft Apples are key to cooking. Compost Donate Set Limits Activity Time! Disposal costs the U.S. around $41 Billion each year All but 2% of the 30 million TONS of food waste ends up in landfills each year Food Waste in the Wrong Hands Donations!! Save the Produce! Use immediately/ Buy right before you need them If they go bad- Compost! Make pie, flavored bread, or cider! Dehydrate Stadium Cleanup -Viking Stadium Food In the RIGHT Hands! Works Cited "Basic Information about Food Waste." EPA. Environmental Protection Agency, . 24 J uly 2012. Web. 29 Oct. 2012. . . . <http://www.epa.gov/osw/conserve/materials/organics/food/fd-basic.htm>. Bloom, Jonathan. American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half of Its Food (and What We Can Do about It). Cambridge, MA: Da Capo, 2010. Print. FOOD WASTE Fruits and vegetables; The forgotten waste. Reuters. "Food Waste: Americans Throw Away Nearly Half Their Food, $165 Billion Annually, Study Says." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 21 Aug. 2012. Web. 27 Oct. 2012. <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/21/food-waste-americans-throw-away-food-study_n_1819340.html>. . Parenting is changing. Ohio State Stadium "Zero Waste" Is America Lazy? Eichenseher, Tasha. ". "365 Trillion Gallons of Water Thrown Away With Our Food Every Year." National Geographic. N.p., Sept.-Oct. 2010. Web. 28 Sept. 2012. <.>. Please wait for instructions Thoughts about food. Baier, Bret. "Has America Become 'Lazy'?" Fox News. FOX News Network, 14 Nov. 2011. Web. 29 Oct. 2012. <http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/special-report/2011/11/15/has-america-become-lazy>. Why are they important? Who donates!? 1609-1610 Jamestown Late 1700s- early 1800s Susannah Carter's cookbook 1900s Great Depression Limited food supply Two World Wars Bloom, Jonathan. American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half of Its Food (and What We Can Do about It). Cambridge, MA: Da Capo, 2010. Print. Landfills are currently overflowing-moving to new locations. Rotten food produces Methane Gas Landfills account for 25% of U.S. Methane Emissions Lazy...Nah! We Are OSU! Calvin, Matt. "Mid-Ohio Food Bank Donations." Telephone interview. 1 Nov. 2012. "Mid-Ohio Food Bank Annual Report 2011." Midohiofoodbank.org. Feeding America, 2012. Web. 29 Oct. 2012. <midohiofoodbank.org>. Americans Waste: 365 Trillion Gallons of Water with their food 28% of the 350 lbs. of available food Why Does it matter? Mid-Ohio Food Bank With the amount of food Americans waste, there is no reason for a hungry soul,the nation's three thousand homeless shelters, or death from malnourishment; therefore, as a society we need to step up and MAKE A CHANGE Each American wastes an average of 1/2- 1 lb. of food each day! "Environmental Issues: Food and Agriculture." Reducing Food Waste and Losses in the U.S. Food Supply. N.p., 21 Aug. 2012. Web. 27 Oct. 2012. <http://www.nrdc.org/food/wasted-food.asp>. Landfills 10% of the United States' total energy budget 50% of the U.S. land 80% of freshwater in the U.S. #excuses #lawsuit #trashcan #timelimits