PPT-New Polymers that support Food Waste Reduction

Mauri Azagury Market Development Manager DuPont Packaging amp Industrial Polymers EMEA region Sandefjord 6th November 2015 DUPONT vision on Food Examples of Packaging innovation that reduces food waste . Ruth Stringer. International Science and Policy Coordinator. Health Care Without Harm. Can you have healthy people on a sick planet? . The Paradox: . Hospitals Create . Environmental Health Problems. . This is Compo – . Wheelie’s . food bin friend. He would like to tell you all about food waste. . Wheelie’s Lessons. . learn and think. Wheelie Big Actions. . research and act . Wheelie Big Competition . Facts. 40% of food in America is uneaten. 7% of the produce that is grown is not used.. . Supermarkets toss out $15 billion worth of fruits and veggies each year.. Lots of foods are kept at wrong temperatures, resulting in spoils. . This is Compo – . Wheelie’s . food bin friend. He would like to tell you all about food waste. . Wheelie’s Lessons. . learn and think. Wheelie Big Actions. . research and act . Wheelie Big Competition . Cayley McLean. Resource Recovery Coordinator. Tauranga City Council. Aim of LFHW:. To create a national conversation that inspires people to take action to reduce their food waste. Nationally led by . Public-Private Alliance. “You can tell how high a society is. by how much of its garbage is recycled.”. —. Dhyani. . Ywahoo. , Native American. Commercial Food Waste collected . Organic Liquid Fertilizer. Motivation, Field Study and Preliminary Results. Shengkui Cheng. Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR),. Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China. chengsk@igsnrr.ac.cn. Ramesh Chawla and Jacob Mlusu. Department of Chemical Engineering. Howard University. Significance of study. GOAL:. . Simultaneous remediation of Cr(VI) and TCE via redox reactions in aqueous and soil systems. What are polymers. ?. Where can you find polymers in your everyday life?. How are polymers synthesized?. What kinds of polymers can be recycled?. How are polymers recycled?. What are some unique applications for polymers?. HBS Student Sustainability Associate Program. Waste Reduction & Recycling Campaign. Campaign Kick-off & Waste Awareness Presentation – today!. Introduce HBS’ sustainability program and your section’s Student Sustainability Associate (SSA). Photo Source. : Justin Sewell. 32%. 24%. of global food supply by weight. A significant share of food intended for human consumption is lost or wasted from the farm to the fork. of global food supply by energy content (calories). DAY 1. SAMPLE. You are not paid to work hard. In fact, you are not paid for effort at all. You are paid for results. It's not what you do; it's what you get done.“. ----. Larry . Winget. : . Personal success and business author and speaker. • . Avoidable . food waste means food that could have been eaten but instead was thrown away because we forgot about leftovers, cooked too much food or didn’t store food properly. . • . Unavoidable food waste means food that is usually not eaten such as egg shells, meat bones, tea bags, fruit and vegetable . It is thought that approximately 50% of the food wasted . is . still edible. . The cost of food waste is significant – estimates show that it costs an average family £700 per year.. Source: . Love Food Hate Waste.