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food waste

Banana peels, nail clippings, pet hair? Nashville wants it all in curbside composting trial

By Caroline Eggers

September 11, 2023

In Nashville, about 30% of what people throw away is organic and can be turned into something useful: compost. But if offered, will people do it? 

Filed Under: Environment, WPLN News Tagged With: Composting, food waste, landfill, Recycling, trash, waste

Nashville Food Project founder Tallu Schuyler Quinn remembered for her ‘ordinary goodness’

By Blake Farmer

February 18, 2022

Tallu Schuyler Quinn
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Since July 2020, Tallu Schuyler Quinn chronicled her experience enduring an aggressive brain cancer. And on Thursday night, the founder of the Nashville Food Project died surrounded by her family.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: food waste, Margaret Renkl, Tallu Schuyler Quinn, The Nashville Food Project

Nashville Restaurants Fighting Food Waste Can Now Hitch A Ride For Their Leftovers

By Shalina Chatlani

January 24, 2019

  Listen Every year, the equivalent of about 10 million meals in Nashville are tossed in the trash, while one in six residents doesn’t have enough food. That’s according to national research from the Natural Resources Defense Council, which has chosen Nashville as a pilot city for testing food waste reduction practices on a national […]

Filed Under: Science, WPLN News Tagged With: food, food waste

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