Japan is recycling food waste back into food with fermentation
Japan is recycling food waste back into food with fermentation
A unique fermentation method being piloted in Japan transforms edible leftovers and scraps into sustainable feed for pigs.
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Japan's small size and mountainous terrain present challenges for food self-sufficiency. The country imports almost two-thirds of its food and three-quarters of its livestock feed. Yet each year, Japan throws out 28.4 million tonnes of food – much of it edible.
This comes with steep environmental and economic costs. Compared to many countries, consumers in Japan pay higher prices for food because so much of it is imported. And they also pay taxes to cover the majority of the 800bn yen (£4.2bn/$5.4bn) the country spends each year on waste incineration. Food makes up about 40% of the rubbish that Japan incinerates, and incineration produces significant air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.
As the world's fifth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, Japan has set goals of cutting emissions by 46% by 2030 and becoming fully carbon neutral by 2050. Tackling food wastewill have to be a part of those efforts, Takahashi says.
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I was pretty surprised that recycling food waste is not common thing around the world.
The county I live in (Northern California) requires that household food waste go into the curbside compost bin, or home compost. They do random checks to make sure you haven’t put any food in the landfill bin and you can get a fine.
It gets turned into compost for landscaping, along with the yard waste, not food though.
This is state law in California. Enforcement differs in each area. I don't believe Oakland checks.
I live in South Korea and we've been doing national recycling ever since I could remember.
this thing calculates the weight of your food waste and charges you for the exact amount you throw out. These are everywhere. I think it's neat, especially considering that other countries are not doing the same thing...
They started setting up composting bins around the NYC. Most of them are full of glass bottles and plastic dog poop bags.
My mom actually made us clean our plate (eat it all) because there were starving children in China.
It was a different time.
there are a lot of starving children in China being permanently affected by perpetual malnutrition and starvation.
https://www.wfp.org/countries/china
this article is about Japanese food waste innovation, btw, not Chinese.
I mean, I think the poster's point was that they had no leftovers because their parents forced them to eat it all with the given excuse. I had the same thing growing up.
That's pretty cool. They say it produces good pork, I wonder how the pigs feel about it vs other feed.
If watching youtubers who raise hogs is any indication, anywhere between not caring at all to being enthused. Hogs are really not picky about their food for the most part and it's not uncommon to add liquid to the feed in general.
Just in the last couple weeks I had beer and pasta which were made with recycled bread. I thought that was pretty cool.
It needs to be transformed? Most people I know just dump the scraps right into the pig trough.
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Well, they do like their natto over there, so I’m confident they can find a way to stomach this.
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Wait? Japan pays high prices for food? It was mind bogglingly cheap when I was there.
They've been doing this in Korea for more than a decade. It's a bit annoying being mandated to throw your food scraps out separately, but it's good to know the refuse is reused.