Food Waste Project

Possibilities – Linking food waste sites on campus and throughout the Delaware area with food pantries such as PIN (People in Need). Map the sites of salvageable food waste and create an efficient process of transporting that food to the food bank. Food Logistics

PIN (People in Need) – the only regulated food pantry in Delaware

These items are what PIN in Delaware lists as most needed

Bar Soap** Boxed Dinners Cake and Frosting Mixes
Canned Fruit Canned Fruit Juices Canned Meats/Fish
Canned Vegetables Canned Pasta Cereal – cooked/dry
Coffee – instant/perked Cooking oil/shortening Diapers/Wipes**
Dish Soap** Dry Milk Feminine Hygiene Products
Hot Chocolate – instant/mix Jell-O Jelly
Kleenex Laundry Detergent** Macaroni & Cheese
Muffin Mixes Noodles/Macaroni Pancake Mix (complete)
Paper Towels** Peanut Butter Potatoes – boxed/instant
Pudding Mixes Saltine & Graham Crackers Shampoo**
Shaving Cream** Spaghetti Sauce Soup
Sugar Syrup Tea Bags
Tissues** Toilet Paper** Toothbrushes**
Toothpaste**

Half of US Food Goes to Waste – Interesting article states that forty to fifty percent of food ready for harvest never gets eaten. I think that this article is talking about the fresh fruits and vegetables grown that do not meet the top grade quality and are left to rot or be plowed over in fields. The effort of many groups to harvest these foods left to rot is called gleaning – Society of St. Andrew that organizes a gleaning network in the US

Turning food waste into biofuel – article about a UK supermarket chain, Sainsbury, making efforts to turn all of their food waste into biofuel. At the end of February they said that they will stop sending any food waste from their Scottish stores to landfill.