Get Up And Do Something: Simple awareness reduces college food waste

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Simple awareness reduces college food waste Jan 15th 2013, 11:10 College students threw out 15 percent less food after researchers peppered dining halls with short anti-waste slogans, according to new study. "If you can get it into people's minds to talk about food waste, that's when little changes take effect," said lead author Kelly Whitehair, an instructor of hospitality management and dietetics at Kansas State University. "Change doesn't have to involve a huge elaborate campaign," she told Reuters Health. Worldwide, up to half the food produced is wasted, according to an estimate published this week by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, an independent London-based engineering society.

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