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Austin restaurants can no longer throw away food
KXAN-TV, Austin, TX ^ | October 2, 2018 (updated) | Kate Winkle

Posted on 10/02/2018 8:17:15 PM PDT by Carl Vehse

Starting Monday, Austin restaurants and food businesses have to come up with alternatives to tossing extra food in the trash.

The city hopes businesses donate the extra food to those in need, but they could also give it to local farms or compost it. It's part of the Universal Recycling Ordinance, which the city hopes will help reach its Zero Waste by 2040 goal.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2manylaws; 2manytaxes; austin; chat; food; localnews; ordinance
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To: M-cubed

My granny told us to think of the starving Chinese, but her food was always good....My other granny’s dog was obese


61 posted on 10/02/2018 9:27:18 PM PDT by waterhill (I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
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To: Dr.Deth

My mommy told me not to be a fussy young man.
I wanted Cap’n Crunch but not no Raisin Bran
But then she told “Little kids are starving in Japan”
“So just eat it, eat it. Just eat it.”
“Just eat it, eat it. Just eat it...”

So eat it! Eat it!
Don’t ya make me repeat it!
Have some more chicken. Have some more pie.
It doesn’t matter if it’s baked or fried

Just eat it! …Eat it! Eat it!


62 posted on 10/02/2018 9:29:33 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Carl Vehse

.……...my daughter and her husband are heirs to a very successful chain of restaurants in Austin and manage them all for an elderly mom and dad.

They are also Liberal to the core.

So, this one is a little funny to me.


63 posted on 10/02/2018 9:31:17 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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To: arthurus

64 posted on 10/02/2018 9:35:42 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Make American Intelligence Great Again. Bring back ASA.)
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To: Carl Vehse

At Chick-fil-A, we have a program called Shared Table. This is where we donate food that is expired, or as we say, ‘timed out’. Our particular store donates it to the Salvation Army. Once it’s timed out, we put it in plastic bags and put it in the freezer and then give it to the Salvation Army twice a week on Mondays and Thursdays.
I believe this program is company-wide.


65 posted on 10/02/2018 9:39:39 PM PDT by hoagy62 (America Supreme!)
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To: Carl Vehse

Crazy

Try giving away excess food or game

It’s difficult to be honest


66 posted on 10/02/2018 9:45:14 PM PDT by wardaddy (I donÂ’t care that youÂ’re not a racist......listening to the Troggs late tonight....babababambababa)
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To: Carl Vehse

Lazy, annoyed restaurant owners will just re-serve it until it’s gone. Cue the food poisoning breaking news. But hey, we’re becoming more like a good communist country every day!


67 posted on 10/02/2018 9:57:32 PM PDT by bluejean (I'm becoming a cranky old person. It really annoys me.)
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To: Carl Vehse

Feed it to hogs.


68 posted on 10/02/2018 10:09:27 PM PDT by arrogantsob (See "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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To: Carl Vehse
The city hopes businesses donate the extra food to those in need, but they could also give it to local farms or compost it.

Seems like there would be potentially large liability risks in distributing discarded food to people in need or in feeding it to livestock on farms. The last bit - about compost - is most likely what this is about. Food waste thrown in the trash ends up in landfills and generates methane, and methane is a big issue for the environmentalists.

It says something amazing about the extent to which America has conquered the problem of hunger that we now have to deal with too many fat people and too much food being thrown away. For most of human existence, starvation has been much more likely than either of these problems,
69 posted on 10/02/2018 10:43:30 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Carl Vehse

And hog farms spring up outside ‘Austin City Limits’.


70 posted on 10/03/2018 12:26:10 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Free Republic is one stop shopping...It's the super Walmart for news.)
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To: CaptainK
They should leave bags of it on the steps of City Hall.

They should leave bags of it on the front door steps of every council member.

71 posted on 10/03/2018 2:16:06 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (CNN - the most busted name in news.)
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To: Beagle8U

And how do they classify food that was regurgitated back onto a plate?

What about food that has been on the plate of someone who was already ill from something?


72 posted on 10/03/2018 2:29:35 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (CNN - the most busted name in news.)
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To: Rebelbase

Austin was long ago restricted over food donations.

Our only grocery store used to put out expired or an over abundance of food out for free. Expired cereal boxes, bruised produce, several day old bread. Nothing that would harm anyone. Of course, the government ordered them to stop. For a while, they’d give the bread to the old folks home and they would put the bead on the curb for everyone but they eventually had to stop, too. For a while, the grocery could give customers free bruised produce if they said it was for their farm animals but they can’t do that anymore. The last thing to go was selling a big bag of old bananas for $1 that people would snatch up quick to make banana bread. Now, instead of feeding people or animals, they have to dump perfectly good food.


73 posted on 10/03/2018 4:15:32 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: VanShuyten

I despise Austin with every fiber in my body but will give them kudos for letting restaurants give coffee grounds for compost. Of course, that’ll be the next thing they’ll nix.

UT students who were for Kavanaugh (color me surprised there’d be even one) had their signs ripped up by libs.


74 posted on 10/03/2018 4:19:09 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Carl Vehse

I work for a grocery chain which gives huge amounts of food to Second Day Harvest.


75 posted on 10/03/2018 4:19:22 AM PDT by School of Rational Thought
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To: jcon40

Well when the homeless in Austin go to the bathroom out on the street they are really just ‘recycling’ so nothing to complain about taxpayers.


76 posted on 10/03/2018 4:19:42 AM PDT by Lockbox
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To: Telepathic Intruder

A burger joint can sell burgers for half price right before closing at night but the manager can’t donate any leftover burgers to a shelter five minutes after closing. Zero logic.


77 posted on 10/03/2018 4:26:21 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: CaptainK
Will "muffin stumps" without the "tops" be allowed to be disposed?


78 posted on 10/03/2018 4:32:35 AM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" @HOROWITZ39, DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: lastchance

I’m fine with throwing away meat or cooked items if they have sat out or have spoiled but why throw away a box of cereal when it expire the day before? Why throw away bread and produce just because the store got in a new shipment and don’t have room on the shelves for it all?


79 posted on 10/03/2018 4:32:55 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: lgjhn23

“It will be interesting to see how long this BS lasts....LOL.”

It will last until twice the number of homeless wind up living under highway 35.


80 posted on 10/03/2018 5:41:45 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Proud member of the DWN party. (Deplorable Wing Nut))
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