{"id":663,"date":"2017-06-14T13:04:16","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T17:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/?p=663"},"modified":"2017-06-14T13:04:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T17:04:16","slug":"from-the-web-packaging-food-with-food-to-reduce-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/06\/14\/from-the-web-packaging-food-with-food-to-reduce-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Web: Packaging Food With Food to Reduce Waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-664\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/files\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-11-at-11.57.30-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1394\" height=\"1178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-11-at-11.57.30-AM.png 1394w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-11-at-11.57.30-AM-300x254.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-11-at-11.57.30-AM-768x649.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-11-at-11.57.30-AM-1024x865.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-11-at-11.57.30-AM-355x300.png 355w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/>For the environmentally conscious eater, they are among the most inconvenient truths: <em>Too much food goes to waste<\/em>. Too much packaging comes with the food. And too much of the packaging is made to last for ages.<\/p>\n<p>Now there may be a single answer to all three problems: using excess food to make the packaging.<\/p>\n<p>A growing number of entrepreneurs and researchers are working to turn foods like mushrooms, kelp, milk and tomato peels into edible \u2014 if not always palatable \u2014 replacements for plastics, coatings and other packaging materials.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/30\/dining\/packaging-materials-food-waste.html?_r=3\"><strong>Learn more<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(<em>via The New York Times) &gt;&gt;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the environmentally conscious eater, they are among the most inconvenient truths: Too much food goes to waste. Too much packaging comes with the food. And too much of the packaging is made to last for ages. Now there may be a single answer to all three problems: using excess food to make the packaging. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/06\/14\/from-the-web-packaging-food-with-food-to-reduce-waste\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From the Web: Packaging Food With Food to Reduce Waste&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3919,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[221,427000,425248,425622],"tags":[4433],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-from-the-web","category-green-leap","category-renewables","tag-sustainability"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8b9n0-aH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":686,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions\/686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}