The Bin Banquet

People complain about population out growing supply of food, but they have no idea how wasteful our society actually is.

Thanks, bdz, I’ll get that corrected.

I tend to not eat every available organic scrap lying about so I guess I throw out “edible” items like gristle, apple cores, crumbs, pulp, stale baked goods, other’s leftovers, and cereal dust by the pound weekly. The pug does lick some jars of stuff clean, so that must help reduce my throw-a-ways some.

Part of the problem with understanding this issue is the misleading nature of the statistics involved. For example, a while ago there were figures around saying that we threw away 30% of the food we bought. Closer inspection showed that this included used coffee grounds and vegetable peelings.

There’s nothing like stats for muddying the waters.

Skip: All these figures that get thrown around are nonsense. There’s the study that said “Gamers aren’t actually adolescents” and only interview people 19 and over. Then there was the study recently with the latest scaremongering about obesity and alzheimers, which studied less people than turn up to the average wedding.

It’s all bollocks. Used to route through the bins at the back of the supermarkets where I used to live. Mainly to get rotten vegetables to throw at the ne’er do wells who hung around the other side:) Don’t ever recall seeing ANYTHING fresh in that.

@skipweasel

The garbage can is right outside the dining room window, so it easier to just toss stuff out the window than to tend a compost heap. Also, I can talk to the neighbors that way as I am scraping organic filth into the bins.