late.
Diminishing rewards for greater work, like addiction being less satisfying
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www.newyorker.com www.newyorker.com
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Some towns actually got smaller and it left places to rot
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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"brown grease"
Ok so how is it supposed to be disposed of?
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reuse.
What happens to all the solid stuff? Is it made into a fertilizer stuff? It doesn't al become gas.
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reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
reducing maybe, but still burning shit. It turns A mole of methane and two moles of O2 into a mole of CO2 and two of H2O, both green house gasses, but not as strong as methane and H2O has a short lifespan in the atmosphere
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beds.
What does the every-day person do with it? Fertilize plants maybe
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d composting
Do they have to compost themselves? Or is it still picked up?
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t decomposes aerobically and does not produce methane, but instead produces organic compost that can then be utilized in agriculture.
Very important. Does it make CO2 or O2?
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By redistributing nutrients and high microbial populations, compost reduces water runoff and soil erosion by enhancing rainfall penetration, which has been shown to reduce the loss of sediment, nutrients, and pesticide losses to streams by 75–95%
Seems important. Look at source later if I go this route
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backyard chickens is a large part of that movement's claim to sustainability, though not all backyard chicken growers recommend it.
more people should have. Love eggs
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he animals turn roughly two thirds of their ingested food into gas or fecal waste,
goddamn, feeding to animals not as great as i thought
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25 times greater to impact climate change than CO2
true, bring up in paper
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very easily
not true
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biorefined
added to source list
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r reuse
I have a green bin. Look into where it goes.
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piggeries.
fun word
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substitutive consumption
Micro econ term for using your spending money for more things because stuff is cheaper instead of saving.
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farmers to provide surplus produce (produce they would otherwise discard due to too low prices) to people that bring glass and metal to recycling facilities (to encourage further waste reduction).
Recycling for recycling. Love it
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h temperature-sensitive ink,
so cool. Look into
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Widespread educational campaigns have been shown to be an effective way to reduce food waste.
Good, funded by who?
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(FAO)
Come up a lot, research them
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35 million tons to 103 million tons
Numbers this big mean nothing to me mentally
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30–50%
Many old sources, 8-12 years old. Still shocking
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per year
Enforces that I should read source 5
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In developing countries, it is estimated that 400–500 calories per day per person are wasted, while in developed countries 1,500 calories per day per person are wasted
Necessity diminished weight. Damn
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auto-consumption
people growing for eating themselves. Subsistence farming
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shattering
look into, idk
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rusts
Plant fungus
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losses may be 100%, for example when there is a price collapse and it would cost the farmer more to harvest and market the produce than to plough it back into the ground.
Wow. Learned in Micro Econ about the idea of fixed costs staying the same, so stopping production if revenue less than variable costs
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North Sea.
Go check out Stuart, Tristram (2009). Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal: The True Cost of What the Global Food Industry Throws Away. Penguin. ISBN 978-0-14-103634-2.
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40–60% of fish caught in Europe is discarded as the wrong size or wrong species.
WHAT!?? Jesus, if things were done more efficiently they could be returned alive
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on their website
Seems like one very keystone place you could change things and have big effects
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pearance
Source good
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Failure to supply agreed quantities renders farmers or processors liable to have their contracts cancelled. As a consequence, they plan to produce more than actually required to meet the contract, to have a margin of error.
Wow! Is there a way around this in our rigid contract-driven world?
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such as confusion in deciphering best before, sell-by or use-by dates.
Very interesting and I relate to this. I think of them as one conflated thing.
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meat and dairy products
Sucks that a lot of these kinds of problems are because of keeping too many animals close and transporting stuff over time. WOuldn't happen if locally, smally grown
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difficult to estimate.
Thought it would be easy because you just see what is tossed in production? Just looked at source and it's 43 years old. WTF
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From
Thought: because there aren't really beneficiaries of food waste, I don't really see why people would put false info on this page. It's not like fossil fuels ya know?
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farmers often harvest selectively, preferring to leave crops not to standard in the field (where they can be used as fertilizer or animal feed), since they would otherwise be discarded later.
good thing? Why left in the field and not put in a place for that. Place for further inquiry.
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these unpredictable conditions.
good point, some kind of unavoidable. I wonder if this is just because like floods or drought kill crops. Look into how the loss actually happens.
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not wasted.
it is now a "resource" or "scrap" not waste
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he definitions by the UN and EU have come under criticism for including food that goes to non-food productive use in their definitions of food waste
hey that's what I said!
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t.[22]
Great reliable source. 26 pages but good info
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decrease in quantity or quality of food.
This feels like a nothing definition. Decrease in quantity? I don't get what that means
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unavoidable food waste
Not unnavoidable because natives used to use all of animals
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s counted as food loss or waste.
by who? I don't think it should be. I guess because it's not directly to people
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Project Drawdown
This page lists reducing food waste as the number one way to get to net negative GHGs
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Sustainable Development Goal 12 seeking to "Halve global per capita food waste"
Important that it is recognized by the UN, but these goals are all wishy washy
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impact of agriculture on climate change.
Whole other MASSIVE page to look at.
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[5]
Good report I'll use. Didn't read it to confirm this though. Seemed like a great source, I think made for a packaging and trade conference in 2011.
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f[4]
This source is from 2013 and itself doesn't give a link or citation to where its info comes from, although it is the Huff post so I trust it a decent amount.
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consumption.
Soooo many links if you have questions and need background
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