1. General and Local Food Waste
Taylor DeLisle, Allison Fetterman, Keri Klimko, Alexa Lopez

2. What is Food Waste?
Food that is thrown away while it is still safe for consumption.
Each day roughly 20 lbs. of food per person per day is thrown out.
What does 20 pounds look like?
Now multiply that by about 7.5 billion

3. But what do the Stats Look Like?
In the U.S. Alone, 30-40% of all food is wasted.
97% of all food thrown away ends up in landfills each year
That is equivalent to 33 million tons of food!!!
In Berks County alone, there is over 430,000 tons of trash in our landfills.
Recycling rates have decreased since 2008 by 56%!
That sounds like a lot of food waste!? How big is Berks County exactly?’

4. Berks County Berks County is 866 square miles in area. Has 5 Colleges
19 School Districts
Population of 411,442

5. Let’s Break it Down.
If Berks County has 411,442 people and each person creates roughly 20 pounds of trash a day...that's…..roughly 8,228,840 pounds of trash each day!!
So if a ton is 2,000 pounds that means we create 4, tons of trash each day...so in a year Berks county adds 1,501,763 pounds of trash to our landfills.
OH WAIT!
Don't Forget 75% of that trash could have been composted!

6. So, What is Compost? Anything you consume can be compost!
And some things you could consume but might not want to…
Like unbleached paper products

7. Is Compost Not For You?
Another way to reduce food waste is to understand what it is you’re buying at the grocery store…
Plan your meals for the week.
Go through your cabinets before going to the store.
Only buy what you need.
Buy prepackaged, single serve portions
I.e. Purdue Single Portion Chicken Breasts

8. Know The Dates
-Best if Used by dates
USDA suggests consuming the product before this date for optimal quality
-Expiration dates
Still safe for consumption; dispose if product smells or looks out of ordinary
Sell By Dates
The date that the product must legally removed from shelves
Use By Dates
USDA recommends you follow this date
*40% of the U.S. food supply is tossed–unused–every year because of food dating!!

9. Recycling
Throughout Berks County recycling rates rose from 22% in 2005 to 59% in
These rates then dropped 56% due to the declining population

10. What Can and Cannot Be Recycled?
Yes !
Cardboard
Newspaper
Mixed Paper - books, junk mail, cards.
Office Paper
Shredded Paper
Aluminum Cans
Tin Cans
Plastics
Glass
No!
Incandescent Bulbs
Plastic Bags
Clothing
Contaminated Pizza Boxes
Lids
Prescription Bottles
Flower pots
Styrofoam
Milk, Juice or soup Cartons
Aluminum foil or foil containers.
These items accepted at household chemical collections.
Fluorescent Bulbs
Batteries
Motor and Oil Gasoline
Household Cleaners
AntiFreeze
Pesticides
Household Cleaners.

11. Going Of The Grid- Produce No Waste- Laura Singer and Lauren Ling
Going off the Grid is a new series that highlights people who have decided to disconnect from the everyday world.
A Young New York woman was in the series about living life without trash.
Lauren Singer
a graduate student at New York University, studying environmental studies.
she explains her lifestyle, as for how she has alternative methods for everything.
2 years of Trash That She Produced.

12. Our Service Project
We made birdhouses for the Glenside Elementary School.
We made a total of 14 bird houses all out of recycled materials.
We made them out of 2 liter soda bottles, plastic mason jars, and popsicle sticks. Here are the birdhouse hanging in the Glenside Garden.

13. Fall
Winter
Summer
Spring
Autumn

14. Bye From Green To Extreme