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2019 Food Waste Experiment Results

Bytrinag January 8, 2020 1 Comment

Wow - 2019 flew by! It seemed like a day or so ago I came up with this experiment to figure out how much food we threw away this year. To track the food we didn’t use and that ended up in the trash bag versus our compost bins. According to cbc.ca and the report they are referencing, “Canada is among the worst globally in wasting food” and frankly, that’s just disappointing. But...

Waste Reduction: May!

Bytrinag July 2, 2019 0 Comments

Month five of our efforts to reduce food waste and since the weather has started warming up, it was time to start my new composters! What an absolute difference that has made. We crushed the 10% less goal from April. I consider food waste to be food that goes in the trash bin, not what goes in the compost, since it will be reused over and over as dirt in my gardens. Starting the composter has...

Waste Reduction: Food Waste – January 2019

Bytrinag February 2, 2019 0 Comments

How much work is it to reduce food waste? Jan 10 - Truth is, I don't know yet. My husband and I decided to work on reducing our food waste this year. We don't know where we're starting so we decided to empty out the fridge and pantry for items that were expired. That alone took us to 7 kg of food. Holy hannah. Then I thought about ways to use food more than once, particularly scraps. Our...

Goals: Waste Reduction

Bytrinag January 6, 2019 0 Comments

Changing the world is overwhelming. I know. It's difficult to think about changing the systems, the methodology of our vulnerability by making and spending money. Hard to know where. To. Start. I could tell you that the thing to do is to get mad. That is the right thing to do. We should be pissed. We should be scared. We should also be disappointed. We could waste all that energy. Blaming others....