Goodr is a two-year-old startup that provides restaurants, airports, convention centers and other food service operations with a blockchain-based digital platform to track surplus food and a food waste recovery service. Essentially, Goodr offers insights to help food businesses reduce waste, and then picks up and donates what waste they don’t mitigate.
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Scotland’s food waste causing more greenhouse gas than plastic
Food waste is a bigger cause of climate change than plastics, according to Zero Waste Scotland.
The government-funded body has urged people to cut down the amount of unwanted food they put in the bin.
When food waste ends up in landfill it rots, producing methane gas, one of the most damaging greenhouse gases driving climate change.
Research by Zero Waste Scotland found that 456,000 tonnes of food waste was collected in Scotland in 2016.
About 224,000 tonnes of plastic waste was collected that year.
Food waste starts long before food gets to your plate
The best way to prevent waste may be to stop surpluses from occurring in the first place.
KT For Good: This Ramadan, let’s work towards food waste reduction
The Khaleej Times is proposing that those observing Ramadan be mindful of food waste during the season. Annual food waste is estimated at 427kg per person in Saudi Arabia and 197kg per person in the UAE, compared with 95kg to 115kg in Europe and North America, according to a research report released by Dubai Industrial Park and The Economist Intelligence Unit.
Emissions and microplastics: How food waste hurts the environment
Throwing away food that could still be eaten isn’t just a waste of money, it also costs precious resources, hurts the climate, threatens biodiversity and can contaminate our soil with microplastics.
Denver launches Food Waste Pilot Program with 9 participating local restaurants
The Denver Department of Public Health & Environment (DDPHE) will launch its Food Waste Pilot Program Wednesday.
Certifiably Green Denver, the city’s program that offers free advising services to help business make their practices more green, created the Food Waste Pilot Program to help Denver restaurants prevent wasted food at the source, donate pre-consumer leftovers and recycle food waste via composting.
Kenya faces one of the worst drought in 38 years
Intergovernmental Authority on Development (Igad) says the rains have already failed and even if it rains now, farmers will not make any meaningful return from their farms because the planting season is already over.
The agency has warned that about 541,309 children under five in Kenya are at risk of malnutrition at the moment with the food shortage expected to get worse in the coming weeks.
Iowa Youth Institute Encourages Students to Focus on World Hunger
The Iowa Youth Institute held its eighth annual meeting at Iowa State University. The students spent part of the day in round table discussion with mentors from the community helping them to think about hunger issues from a global perspective.
USDA launches pilot program allowing SNAP recipients to shop for groceries online
During a two-year pilot program, those receiving SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) benefits — often referred to as “food stamps” — will be able to shop for groceries from online retailers, including Walmart, Amazon and, soon, ShopRite and others. The pilot is live in New York state at launch, with availability that varies by retailer
How going hungry affects children for their whole lives
- Food poverty is on the rise in rich countries. And evidence suggests the impact can last for years afterwards.
