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Diners waste far less food when they're schooled on the harm their leftovers can inflict on the environment. But if they know the food is going to be composted instead of dumped in a landfill, the educational benefit disappears.
When composting enters the picture, educated diners waste just as much as those who haven't learned about shrinking landfill space, dangerous greenhouse gas emissions and water and soil pollution, a new study found.
This presents a tricky situation for policymakers figuring out how to manage food waste, because the top tactics are prevention (through education) and diversion (through composting), said lead researcher Danyi Qi, a graduate student in agricultural economics at The Ohio State University.
"When you do both, they cancel each other out -- they work at cross purposes," said Qi, who is presenting the findings this week at the annual meeting of the Allied Social Science Associations in Chicago.
The original article information is available on OSU's web site.
People don't feed their scraps to the dogs & hogs?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday January 06 2017, @09:25PM
Doggy bags make sense for some people, in some situations. If you're traveling, for instance, and have no way to refrigerate your leftovers, you might not even consider a doggy bag. Or, the remaining portion is just awfully small for another meal, so you don't bother. Often times, the main course is a rather small portion, and that is made up for by large portions of 'taters and veggies. Few people are going to bother with a doggie bag for their 'taters and green beans. And, in some restaurants, asking for a doggie bag turns into a minor headache. The staff may not be set up to handle such requests, so it takes them 15 minutes just to figure out how to package your food for transportation.
There's really nothing wrong with doggie bags, but they don't always work out.