South Korea now recycles 95% of its food waste
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Re: South Korea now recycles 95% of its food waste
#2> There’s a limit to how much food waste fertilizer can actually be used
once upon a time we fed food waste to animals to "recycle" the caloric content. Think table scraps(but not meat) going to pigs or chickens.
Would be interesting if we close the loop on this household content
Edit: Added note that I meant "vegan" scraps.
Re: South Korea now recycles 95% of its food waste
#3> There’s a limit to how much food waste fertilizer can actually be used once upon a time we fed food waste to animals to "recycle" the caloric content. Think table scraps(but not meat) going to pigs or chickens. Would be interesting if we close the loop on this household content Edit: Added note that I meant "vegan" scraps.
Stopped in the UK due to BSE, and not being able to audit ingredients.
I wonder if cockcroach protein powder would bypass brain wasting disease and other nasties.
Re: South Korea now recycles 95% of its food waste
#4> There’s a limit to how much food waste fertilizer can actually be used once upon a time we fed food waste to animals to "recycle" the caloric content. Think table scraps(but not meat) going to pigs or chickens. Would be interesting if we close the loop on this household content Edit: Added note that I meant "vegan" scraps.
I believe in China it was common to site toilets over pig stys. Some loop closing isn't a very good idea.
Re: South Korea now recycles 95% of its food waste
#5Before Haber–Bosch, everyone recycled 100% of their food waste.
Re: South Korea now recycles 95% of its food waste
#6> There’s a limit to how much food waste fertilizer can actually be used once upon a time we fed food waste to animals to "recycle" the caloric content. Think table scraps(but not meat) going to pigs or chickens. Would be interesting if we close the loop on this household content Edit: Added note that I meant "vegan" scraps.
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Re: South Korea now recycles 95% of its food waste
#7>The bag charges also meet 60% of the cost of running the scheme
Recycling metals is substantially profitable, because scrap metal is actually worth something. Making new metal from old metal requires far less energy than making new metals from raw ore, even factoring in the costs of transportation and processing.
Does collecting and composting food waste actually result in a net reduction of our use of finite resources, or is it just a sop to make us feel better about throwing away food? Is this really recycling, or is it a waste of resources at one step removed?
Re: South Korea now recycles 95% of its food waste
#8"per capita food waste in Europe and North America is 95kg to 105kg a year"
That's a massive amount, and that is just waste in the household, not waste in the farm or factory.
I can understand some wastage of salad and berries etc, but they're all lighter stuff. How can the average westerner waste 2kg food a week???
Re: South Korea now recycles 95% of its food waste
#9>The bag charges also meet 60% of the cost of running the scheme Recycling metals is substantially profitable, because scrap metal is actually worth something. Making new metal from old metal requires far less energy than making new metals from raw ore, even factoring in the costs of transportation and processing. Does collecting and composting food waste actually result in a net reduction of our use of finite resour…
60% of the world's crop yield is the direct result of fossil fuel derived fertilizers. Recycling food is recycling fossil fuels, otherwise it just ends up rotting into the environment and polluting it just the same as burning the fuels except you aren't doing anything with it if it just rots in a landfill.
Re: South Korea now recycles 95% of its food waste
#10>The bag charges also meet 60% of the cost of running the scheme Recycling metals is substantially profitable, because scrap metal is actually worth something. Making new metal from old metal requires far less energy than making new metals from raw ore, even factoring in the costs of transportation and processing. Does collecting and composting food waste actually result in a net reduction of our use of finite resour…
60% of the world's crop yield is the direct result of fossil fuel derived fertilizers. Recycling food is recycling fossil fuels, otherwise it just ends up rotting into the environment and polluting it just the same as burning the fuels except you aren't doing anything with it if it just rots in a landfill.
> Recycling food is recycling fossil fuels
How much fuel do you have to burn to turn that waste food into usable nitrates? If it requires less fuel than the Haber-Bosch process, then why is it not profitable?