{"id":38075,"date":"2018-09-21T06:54:35","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T11:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38075"},"modified":"2018-09-21T06:54:35","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T11:54:35","slug":"how-to-have-zero-waste-in-your-kitchen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38075","title":{"rendered":"How To Have Zero Waste in Your Kitchen"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/resources\/how-to-have-zero-waste-in-your-kitchen_21092018\/\">How To Have Zero Waste in Your Kitchen<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-47547 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Ready-Nutrition-How-To-Have-Zero-Waste-in-the-Kitchen.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Ready-Nutrition-How-To-Have-Zero-Waste-in-the-Kitchen.jpg 550w, http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Ready-Nutrition-How-To-Have-Zero-Waste-in-the-Kitchen-300x199.jpg 300w\" alt=\"Ready Nutrition- How To Have Zero Waste in the Kitchen  \" width=\"550\" height=\"364\" \/><\/center>How would you like to save a LOT of money, and benefit the environment while you are at it? There are many tricks and tips you can use to do both.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, many of us generate a lot of waste \u2013 which damages our bank accounts and the planet. The good news is that it doesn\u2019t have to be that way.<\/p>\n<p>Just how much waste does America generate?<\/p>\n<p>According to a 2013 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.epa.gov\/epawaste\/nonhaz\/municipal\/web\/html\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report<\/a>, it is an\u00a0astonishing amount:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 2013, Americans generated about 254 million tons of trash and recycled and composted about 87 million tons of this material, equivalent to a 34.3 percent recycling rate. On average, we recycled and composted 1.51 pounds of our individual waste generation of 4.40 pounds per person per day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Municipal solid waste (more commonly known as trash or garbage) consists of everyday items we use and then throw away, including product packaging, grass clippings, furniture, clothing, bottles, food scraps, newspapers, appliances, paint, and batteries. This waste comes from our homes, schools, hospitals, and businesses.<\/p>\n<p>This is a shame because most of the trash we throw away can be reused, repurposed, or recycled for another use.<\/p>\n<p>Food waste, in particular, is a huge problem and is unnecessary and especially tragic.<\/p>\n<p>According to a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0195405\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0195405\">study<\/a>\u00a0funded by the United States Department of Agriculture and published earlier this year, <span class=\"tweet_quote\">American consumers waste about one pound of food per day or 225-290 pounds per year.<\/span>\u00a0This means US households throw out about 150,000 tons of food each day, total.<\/p>\n<p>Put this into perspective: this means that about 20% of all the food put on our\u00a0plates is\u00a0tossed out every year \u2013 enough to feed 2 billion extra people annually. It is\u00a0equivalent to about a third of the calories the average American consumes.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How To Have Zero Waste in Your Kitchen How would you like to save a LOT of money, and benefit the environment while you are at it? There are many tricks and tips you can use to do both. Unfortunately, many of us generate a lot of waste \u2013 which damages our bank accounts and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[17984,20367,6787,924],"class_list":["post-38075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-kitchen-waste","tag-lisa-egan","tag-ready-nutrition","tag-waste"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38076,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38075\/revisions\/38076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}