Brummet's Conscious Blog

-- Thoughts On Food Waste --  Have you ever sat in a restaurant and wondered if your table sent so much un-eaten food back for disposal, just how much is being wasted at every table, every night? The answer – a lot. There’s a lot at the back where all the food processing is done as well. Bins of the stuff is being created every day at the back of every café, grocery store, deli, coffee shop, and restaurant (to name a few). If your area is rich in agriculture, you likely have some kind of processing or manufacturing or brewing companies in town. They too, create bins of the stuff. So what to do about all this waste? Well, you do know I’m a huge proponent of composting – and a lot of companies have created programs to compost their waste, or utilized existing ones in their communities. So that is starting to take root as part of our culture. Individuals too are taking up composting much more readily, and so they can take advantage of this (or commu...