The results from your first two weeks of data are in! See the DATA SUMMARY page HERE. It’s nothing fancy, but the numbers are there for all to see. Looking at just two weeks of data, what pops out for you?
For me, it’s the total food weight already diverted. Whether measured in pounds, baby elephants, lions, or 148 wiggly chihuahuas, that’s a lot of slop!
Prior to this study, various people would have had to schlep these 743 pounds into garbage bags, into trash cans (or dumpsters), into vehicles, and eventually into the landfill whose busy bulldozers I can hear every morning from my very own home. Instead, you schlepped this weight to your own backyard.
Well done. There are costs to burying food waste in landfills, both economic and environmental. Your collective actions make an impact. Find out more by visiting our new FAQ page, “Food Waste and Landfills.”
Meanwhile, back to those baby elephants. If you are one of those 20 lb./wk. households, at this rate you might be able to divert the equivalent of baby elephant of your own by the end of this study. If you are more like a 3 lb./wk. household, well…that’s still nine little yippers.
Why such a range in household totals? Study households are home to 2 - 8 people, so the number of eaters makes a difference. So does your cooking style (prepare from scratch? ready-to-eat? eat out?), your relative love of leftovers, dietary preferences, and more. In my own household, for example, seems like we’re hauling a pail-a-day filled with fruit and veggie rinds. Running a micro-zoo? Nope, just feeding a manly vegan. In short, each household’s total tells its own story. What’s yours? Might it change during this project?
Meanwhile, onwards! Thanks for doing something right here at home that makes the world a better place.
