watch it: “TrashIn’ the Big Apple”

by MaryAnn Johanson

Thu, Mar 20, 2008

3 comments

New York is one of the greenest cities in the country, but we waste more food than anywhere else. There’s an easy fix:

via KarmaTube

(Technorati tags: TrashIn’ the Big Apple)

share and enjoy

If you haven’t commented here before, your first comment will be held for MaryAnn’s approval. This is an anti-spam, anti-troll, anti-abuse measure. If your comment is not spam, trollish, or abusive, it will be approved, and all your future comments will post immediately. (Further comments may still be deleted if spammy, trollish, or abusive, and continued such behavior will get your account deleted and banned.)

If you’re logged in here to comment via Facebook and you’re having problems, please see this post.

PLEASE NOTE: The many many Disqus comments that were missing have mostly been restored! I continue to work with Disqus to resolve the lingering issues and will update you asap.

3 Comments

oldest

newest most voted

Inline Feedbacks

view all comments

amanohyo

Thu, Mar 20, 2008 4:08pm

This is a great idea. We started composting several years ago, and it’s amazing how much of our trash is actually compostable. It ends up on the pile behind our yard and is eventually used in our vegetable garden.

It’s also important to buy in bulk and avoid products that are individually packaged as much as possible. I hope more cities invest in composting programs and encourage people to participate.

I worked in the food service industry (movie theater) in my teens and it’s criminal how much trash people generate, how much food they throw away (expensive food too, I might add), and most of all how incredibly lazy they are about simply throwing garbage away.

Lanna Lee Maheux-Quinn

Thu, Mar 20, 2008 4:21pm

Sorry, I didn’t watch the whole thing (Well, I am at work and am supposed to be working) but I wondered if this was about the people who eat food from the garbage.

Wait, I found a link. They call themselves Freegans: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11154276/

I can get behind composting (composting is cool) but not eating from the garbage. Ugh.