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As with any engineering problem, the harder you push some constraints the more you'll have to pay with others. A university-scale cafeteria could greatly reduce
by jerf 5y ago
As with any engineering problem, the harder you push some constraints the more you'll have to pay with others. A university-scale cafeteria could greatly reduce food waste by fetching the food off of the plates the customers are done with and putting that food back into the cafeteria for the next customers. But there's reasons that's several violations of the health code. Something has to give at some point.
- aenis 5y agoThere is an all you can eat chain in my area. Its cheap, but they do charge extra for any leftovers - that approach would likely significantly reduce the waste in places such as uni-scale cafeterias.
- hosh 5y agoOnsite composting and vermicomposting is a better place to dump “food waste”. Where the food usually goes are into landfills where they produce dangerous accumulations of methane that can explode. Some folks have tried capturing that methane to burn, but if stuff can be made into compost, you’d need less synthetic fertilizers.
- notduncansmith 5y agoI think there is some room to innovate before we get to that point. For instance, they could educate students on the economic and ecological costs of food waste, and equip them with tools to reduce it, like associating certain levels of hunger with visible portion sizes, or putting in electronic scales so students are shown how much of each food they eat.