Posts Tagged ‘food waste’
Students, district rally to bring back free supper program
After the Oakland Unified Schools District (OUSD) eliminated the district’s free supper program in 2018, student organizers from Oakland Kids First, a city organization that supports youth organizing and campaign work, and the OUSD Superintendent’s Office teamed up to recover and revamp the program.
Read More“Feeding the 5,000” serves free smoothies and soup, satisfies thousands
The first ‘Feeding the 5,000’ event in the United States took place at Frank Ogawa Plaza on Saturday. More than 5,000 servings of lunch were prepared out of fruits and vegetables that would otherwise have been wasted.
Read MoreWhere do all those rotting jack-o-lanterns go?
Right now, somewhere on your block, a pumpkin is rotting. If you’re lucky, that somewhere is in a Waste Management-sanctioned green bin, where it can safely decay with other compostable trash, and not on your front porch. It is mid-November, after all. This time of year, pumpkins become a major player in the composting program…
Read MoreEBMUD turns food scraps into electricity
Five days a week, a long chrome truck pulls up to EBMUD’s wastewater treatment plant. It lifts its hydraulic-powered trailer bed and proceeds to dump 40,000 pounds of what looks like thick sewage into a giant underground mixer. Strangely, it smells … good. Not what you’d typically imagine for a sewage plant.
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