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Rescue Food. Nourish Our Community
T-shirts Transformed
BY TOM KENWORTHY ON JANUARY 14, 2014
Massachusetts is going to start spending some serious coin to prepare for sea level rise and flooding brought by coastal storms.
Junkyard Planet: Travels in a Billion-Dollar Trash Trade
by Adam Minter [Bloomsbury Press, Nov. 2013]
Most Americans’ concept of recycling begins and ends at the curb. “Junkyard Planet”picks up the story from there.
The new book takes us on an eye-opening international journey of junk with a first-class guide.
The author, Adam Minter, is both a child of the scrap industry – his parents ran a small junkyard in Minnesota – and a scrappy journalist who has covered the trade globally for more than a decade.
Those credentials have provided Minter special access to the elite traders of scrap (discarded metal, paper and plastic)– a market he describes as generating as much as $500 billion annually and employing more people than any other industry except agriculture.
The Food Recovery Project recently won the MassRecycle 2013 Institution Reuse Award.
MassRecycle annually recognizes outstanding achievements by individuals, public servants, municipalities, businesses and organizations in promoting recycling and waste reduction in the State of Massachusetts.
Read: http://www.massrecycle.org/recyclingawards/2013-winners-finalists/institution-reuse-award
The Food Recovery Project is supported by the Minuteman Parents Association, Sustainable Arlington, and the Massachusetts Climate Action Network.
Since March, 2012, the project has recovered over 12,000 crates of food that otherwise would largely have been discarded. This has amounted to several hundred thousand dollars in retail food value.
Volunteers collect fresh produce, bread, canned and other foods daily for redistribution to food pantries, low-income senior housing complexes, the Arlington Senior Center, Bunker Hill Community College Single Stop Program, and other public or non-profit institutions.
Businesses donating food include Panera Bread, Starbucks, Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods Market, and the new Kickstand Cafe in Arlington Center.
A Scientist's View of Water Quality
in Winchester's Ponds, Lakes and Rivers
April 24, 7pm, Winchester Public Library
Presentation by Mystic River Water Shed Association's scientist Katerina Sukola
