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Re: South Korea now recycles 95% of its food waste

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Post by lostlogin »

kwhitefoot wrote: post #132
thatwasunusual wrote: post #76

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Recycling doesn't help much as long as Norwegians throw away 40-50 kg of food per person each year. :(

That's less than a kilo a week, say 120 g per person per day. In my household I suspect that most of that is potato peelings, onion skins, orange, apple, and banana peel, teabags, etc. If you drink tea five times a day you have 10 g of teabags. So, what is the definition of food waste? If it is food that could be eaten then in my household of four people it is very close to zero. But still the kitchen compost bin is…

Coffee drinking adds up too. 3 coffees per day, 20g per coffee. Once you add in the extra coffee at weekends and visitors, it’s 30+ kgs of grounds per year. The garden seem to like them though.

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Post by lostlogin »

siruncledrew wrote: post #80
swombat wrote: post #62

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But... why... Pigs don’t eat human faeces...

If you want to see what happens when pigs that eat near human faeces are eaten by us: https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/28/health/brain-parasites-case-s...

The CDC specifically say that you don’t get cysticerosis from eating pork, though the correlation with pigs eating human faeces is mentioned. As always, it seems that washing your hands is important.

https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/cysticercosis/index.html

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Post by vram22 »

jdietrich wrote: post #105
foota wrote: post #93

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I felt like the parent was asking the question not as a zing but an earnest question.

I'm a deep green (I don't eat meat, I don't fly, I don't drive), but I'm also a skeptical green. There is an overwhelming presumption that recycling must be good for the environment, but the evidence is often weak or nonexistent. I'd be more than happy to support food waste recycling if someone can provide good evidence that it actually is environmentally beneficial. The classic example is plastic versus re-usable gl…

>The plastic waste issue is quite effectively solved by just burning it - plastic waste is a perfectly good hydrocarbon fuel.

How about the pollution caused by burning plastic waste? Take dioxins, for just one example. I've read that they are released when you burn plastic (don't have a link handy).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dioxins_and_dioxin-like_compou...

Re: South Korea now recycles 95% of its food waste

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Post by lostlogin »

viraptor wrote: post #61
avip wrote: post #54

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Good compost does not smell but does attract (in NA) the likes of racoons and black bears and some people vocally don't like that.

It also attracts lots of insects. While it's ok in general, you probably don't want a farm of them right next to where you sit/eat.

And as I discovered last week, bees hate fresh compost. Don’t dig it in the near a beehive.

Re: South Korea now recycles 95% of its food waste

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

nightski wrote: post #73
RickJWagner wrote: post #44

That's awesome! Food waste seems so very easily preventable. Take what you want, but eat what you take. Composting what's left over is an awesome idea.

Is it no longer waste if it sits on your gut?

No, then it's waist;D

Re: South Korea now recycles 95% of its food waste

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Post by Gravityloss »

airstrike wrote: post #57
punnerud wrote: post #20

Norway: 50% of food, 77% of energy in waste, and 97% of toxic waste is recycled. https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&... We are also rebuilding some of our plants to sort waste with machine learning. The initial tests are really promising. Several of them are already sorting out most plastic using spectrometer-sensors, so we don’t need to do it manually. In combination with the machine learnin…

Once upon a time I came across AMP Robotics[0], a company that also uses ML and robotics for sorting waste. Pretty nifty project, in case you're curious. You can see the robots in action on their website[1] __________ 0. https://www.amprobotics.com/ 1. https://www.amprobotics.com/amp-cortex

Also https://www.zenrobotics.com/

Re: South Korea now recycles 95% of its food waste

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Post by aitchnyu »

maerF0x0 wrote: post #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.

Is feeding meat to chickens and pigs a bad idea? I get that brain matter could cause prion diseases in cows.

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Post by spraak »

bjelkeman-again wrote: post #129
spraak wrote: post #91

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Can you share which startup you work for? I've been wanting to work for a company like that

This is a new one, Johanna’s Urban Farms, in Stockholm. We are just now building the pilot installation. https://www.johannas.org

Tack!

Re: South Korea now recycles 95% of its food waste

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Post by kungfugz »

avip wrote: post #82
osrec wrote: post #79

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Is that as a result of overproduction or just wastefulness?

At every point in the supply chain (grow, pick, sort, package, deliver...) a % of produce becomes more expensive to keep than to throw. So it being dropped.

This is true. Often times it is tilled back into the ground. Food Banks get this produce for free(less the cost of packing and shipping)
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