Posted on 10/02/2018 8:17:15 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
Starting Monday, Austin restaurants and food businesses have to come up with alternatives to tossing extra food in the trash.
The city hopes businesses donate the extra food to those in need, but they could also give it to local farms or compost it. It's part of the Universal Recycling Ordinance, which the city hopes will help reach its Zero Waste by 2040 goal.
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I agree. But do the people who wrote that law understand the distinction. Also this is about restaurants. I think most of their unused food would go into the category of already been on a plate.
LOL instead of ‘eat your peas theres starving children in china’ it will be ‘eat your peas or im calling the cops’.
Look how long the windmill nonsense has lasted.
Note to self: Never return to Austin, TX.
Curious if the Berkley poop ap will be modified for the Austin fine eateries?
Like it or not, bet a bunch if these leftovers end up in trash cans sitting on the sidewalks in front of the restaurant BUT the restaurants TECHNICALLY didn't throw the leftovers out right? /sarc - sort of
Some years back the FDA forced a change in food can labels and decreed that the old ones were no good. Wife and I were Salvation Army volunteers and were tasked in going through all their charity food boxes and pull out the dated cans.
I suggested those cans be given to the homeless and was told no, just because of the reason you stated. What a waste!
Everybody here can probably tell this similar tale: Smith's grocery used to donate their day-old bakery goods to the local Senior Center. One old lady found a touch of mold on one of the pies and instead of just dumping it or mentioning it to the Supervisor, she went to Smith's and bellyached. Smith no longer sent ANY goods to the Center.
“Everybody here can probably tell this similar tale: Smith’s grocery used to donate their day-old bakery goods to the local Senior Center. One old lady found a touch of mold on one of the pies and instead of just dumping it or mentioning it to the Supervisor, she went to Smith’s and bellyached. Smith no longer sent ANY goods to the Center. “
Larry, consider this a hand-off...
“Keep your damn muffin stumps”
Nope, a reference to mycology.
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