Schools waste $5 million a day in uneaten food. Here's how Oakland is reinventing the cafeteria
Fortunately, Nancy Deming, the school districts sustainability manager for custodial and nutritional services, is supervising the sorting line today. If youve started eating your fruit, it goes in the compost, she reminds the girl with a smile. If you havent taken a bite, it goes to Food Share. The girl glances at the plum, then carefully places it in the clear bin, from which students can take whatever unopened or unbitten foods they please. Anything left will either be offered the next day or donated to a local hunger-relief organization.
USDA strongly encourages schools to donate leftover foods to appropriate nonprofit institutions provided this practice is not prohibited by State or local laws or regulations. Food donation has been a longstanding policy in all Child Nutrition Programs
Leftover food not suitable for human consumption can be used to feed animals or given to companies that convert food discards into commercial animal feed and pet food. Feeding waste food to livestock or having the food processed into animal feed can be a viable option for recycling food scraps and provides economic and environmental benefits for all involved.
Your attempt at backpeddling, and being intentionally obtuse is amazing. You do realize that food recycling programs aren't exclusive to California right? I was simply using that as an example.
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I'm not looking for proof because I don't have anything to prove to you
Since you "dOn'T hAvE aN oPiNiOn" I guess it doesn't matter anyway
You made a statement and claimed it was fact. You were caught, own it.
It specifically says unopened or unbitten food in a bin. I really doubt they want cheese sticks put on top of the plums and apples.
There are many examples of food recycling. Another example, which I posted, is schools donating the food to farms to be used as food for animals, or using it as compost for the schools garden. This again, assumes that the kid even touched the food to begin with. If he didnt, it would have simply been given the next student in line.