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White House Announces Strategy to Keep Edible Food Out of Landfills (www.nytimes.com)
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This is a small but important part of what needs doing

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

What’s in the White House plan?

The White House says it will fund research into technologies that could extend the shelf life of food, like new seed varieties and better packaging.

The government will also invest in research to measure the “effectiveness of different consumer messages to encourage households to reduce food waste” and help students learn food waste prevention tips, including in school cafeterias, which can be enormous sources of food waste.

The Department of Agriculture says it’s also working with farmers, crop insurance agents and others to reduce on-farm food loss.

Yay. They found a way without impacting shareholder profits.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Keep edible food out of landfills by increasing shelf life? Presumably if the food is edible by the the time its getting to the landfill then shelf life isn't the problem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

If the food has longer shelf life, stores can keep the same amount of stock as now and sell everything before it goes bad.

Of course, the easy way would be for stores to not stock as much of food that is likely to go bad before all of it is sold, but then they make less money and also customers would cry that they sometimes can't get everything they want.