Can you see What is going on with food wastes?

Cleveland Indians Have Home-Field Advantage on Recycling – NYTimes.com

UK organization advocates landfill ban on food was – RT – Recycling Today

I found these two different articles to know what is going on with recycling food wastes. I’m very glad to see these articles to know specific projects for recycling food wastes are working. Through many people and nations, people started to know how much different kind of values in food. These events are very good example about how we can use food wastes for better purposes.

The first article is about how the recycling project is going on in Cleveland. Literally this article introduce us how Cleveland well organized, how this association produces benefits, and show us how the total outcome is both awesome and cool to everyone. Although the system requires very complex procedures to recycling many different types of food wastes. It wasn’t really working on many states in US, because of the price. However, in my opinion, the InSinkErator Inc’s system Grind2Energy is the closest outcome of efficiency and multiprocessing in recycling.

Second article is dealing with much larger size of recycling business. The comparison between one city in US and UK is proves that the recycling food wastes for a nation is now on adapting. Also, it shows that the requirements for adapting food waste recycling procedure in a nation very well. First of all, nation requires to put used food waste baskets for convenient places around all houses, shops, or factories. Second, collect them and put them in the grinder for convenience in recycling procedures. Finally, refine the result and classify liquid and solid materials. Then we can use solid materials for feeding stocks and liquid for the bio-fuel.

Cleveland is very successful example of recycling food waste as city size. Although the size is smaller than nation so they could build recycling organization in short time and stabilize the procedures. However, UK’s BigGreen project shows the money to maintain the beginning of the recycling project is significantly larger than city size.

I can’t imagine the more efficient ways to setup all the procedures for recycling food wastes. However, I also believes that this recycling project will change many nation’s current states and helps many people.

Reducing food wastes? Takes too long time

In past generations, US production rate is keep increasing. Especially in food production, the production rate of foods between 1980 and 2010 is drastically increasing. For example, the total grain production in 1980 was 233 million tons, but in 2010 the total production was exactly doubled. (EPI Food and agriculture) After 30 years later, people of 2010 consume twice or more than people of 1980.

Now, think about how many tons of food will waste from the increasing amount of foods. If your imagination can’t follow this question, I’ll help you to understand more. In 2012 there were 35 million tons food wastes were discarded and the population of US citizens in 2012 was 315 million. (MSW Fact 2012) Let’s do the simple math. First, divide 35 into 315 is  0.11 tons. Second one ton is 1000kg, so 110 kg per person. Finally, if your weight is 150 lbs then guess what? You consumed more than your own weight!

Isn’t it creepy?

Sadly, this increasion of food wastes is endless, unless all human suddenly turn into plant so that they can do photosynthesize. Now if you have enough time please watch this video.

It is 2 minutes short video to summarize the food waste issues well.

If you watched it, then I hope you can understand the reason that we need to recycle food wastes. As the data proves, the production rate is keep increasing and also the food waste rate is keep increasing too. In this situation, even if some people try to reduce the food waste rate, but the increasing food waste rate is larger than the reduction rate.

If we can’t reduce the food waste rate drastically, then we have to change the view of watching this issue.

In previous post, I posted the recycling method of food waste, the biofuel. Largest, safest, and most adaptable technology to recycling food waste. If we can change the view of food waste, garbage to energy resource, then it will gives more profits to society.

How many foods that you were wasted?

How many meals that you are eating a day?

Perhaps 3 times per day as usual concepts of eating does?

However, if there are food supply then there will be also wasted food exist.  Particularly in U.S there are 30~40% percent of food supply is wasted. How do we can possible to use these wasted foods for better use?

Based on the food wastes per year, there are few suggestions about the recycling of wasted foods. One of them is converting wasted foods into biofuel for prevent future energy crisis. Even now few millions ton of wasted foods are dumped as trash and those foods are reproducing highly toxic materials to nature. Most wasted foods are being sent to the inflame section to burn with other type of trashes, but if we are using measured and nationally granted wasted food baskets or plastic bags to keep those wasted food as selected foods as material for reproducing different type of energies we can clearly help both nature and national wealth to produce better futures.

Mostly there are attempts to using peels of fruits like orange, banana, grape, or any other types of fruits with their peels are great resources to convert them into the natural resource based biofuel. Most of them are highly replaceable with current biofuel and easy to build their power plants to reproduce highly recyclable energy now. By the oils within these fruit peels they need few processes to reproduce biofuel in these future. However, these processes are containing serious problems, the dumping of wasted food in land. Indeed, if we can reply these technologies into future and recycling other 70 percent of wasted food as new resource of future then we can bring more bright future.