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Eat All the Food You Buy and Invest the Money You Save

Posted on April 7, 2021April 8, 2021by Anne-Marie Bonneau
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If, yearly, you invested the dollar value of food the average American family of 4 buys but doesn’t eat, in 10 years you’d have piles of cash.

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How Does Recycling Work and Should I Bother?

Posted on March 1, 2020March 2, 2020by Mary Katherine Glen
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What gets recycled? What doesn’t? Why does recycling differ from place to place? A waste management student reveals these mysteries and more!

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23 Simple Ways to Reduce Planet-Heating Wasted Food

Posted on January 10, 2019January 15, 2024by Anne-Marie Bonneau
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Food waste is often literally the low-hanging fruit of combatting climate change. These simple 23 tactics will help you waste less food and save more money.

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Kitchen Science for Kids: Food Waste Audit

Posted on November 2, 2017January 24, 2018by Anne-Marie Bonneau

Most young kids understand—better than some adults—that we have only one planet and so should preserve it rather than trash it. Curious and inquisitive, they are also natural scientists. In this kitchen science for kids lesson plan, your kids will learn about food waste—why we waste food, what else we waste when we waste it, […]

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