Grocery store I go to sells the old bananas at a large discount. They use red tape to tag them and there is a code just for red tape bananas.
My kids and their friends love banana bread.
i picked up food donations for a food bank for several months. it's crazy what gets tossed, that we weren't allowed to pick up. there are some health regulations that have to/should be followed, which i don't necessarily have a problem with, but OP is generally right.
there's also restrictions on what state/govt funded food banks are allowed to accept as donations from stores and individuals.
there's a shitfuckton of waste in all of our industries. i stopped being anal/OCD about recycling after working for a large department store chain. at seasonal changeover, we were filling up a 40' dumpster about twice a week with packaging that all went to a landfill. also, big office/res highrise or manufacturing plant construction sites generate huuuuge amounts of landfill waste.
imho, recycling as a personal habit still makes sense just from what the Bible says about being this planet's stewards, but it's our infrastructure, macro-economy, and retail conveniences that are the biggest generators of pollution and waste. globalization has also been very poisonous for the planet.
Reminds me of the paper straw in plastic wrapping. LOL
Or cities that ban plastic bags from grocery stores. So you end up putting a bunch of PLASTIC WRAPPED items into a paper bag. And you're supposed to feel better. LOL
In the recycling plant we managed, i think something like 70% of all collected recyclable waste ended up going to the landfill.
Also, the finished products from the recycling plant? We were having trouble finding buyers.
The recycling plant lost money. Throwing everything into the landfill would have been cheaper for the government too. And most of what was collected as "recyclable" ended up in the landfill anyways.
Taxation is theft and people and business go out of their way not to get robbed. Oh, but the problem is them protecting themselves, not the fact that they are being robbed...
Grocery store I go to sells the old bananas at a large discount. They use red tape to tag them and there is a code just for red tape bananas. My kids and their friends love banana bread.
Banana bread is great. Fresh homemade that isn't too sweet.
I also love me some baked, warm apple cobbler with cinnamon.
If Big Pharma has taught the world anything, it's "There's no profit in efficiency."
i picked up food donations for a food bank for several months. it's crazy what gets tossed, that we weren't allowed to pick up. there are some health regulations that have to/should be followed, which i don't necessarily have a problem with, but OP is generally right.
there's also restrictions on what state/govt funded food banks are allowed to accept as donations from stores and individuals.
there's a shitfuckton of waste in all of our industries. i stopped being anal/OCD about recycling after working for a large department store chain. at seasonal changeover, we were filling up a 40' dumpster about twice a week with packaging that all went to a landfill. also, big office/res highrise or manufacturing plant construction sites generate huuuuge amounts of landfill waste.
imho, recycling as a personal habit still makes sense just from what the Bible says about being this planet's stewards, but it's our infrastructure, macro-economy, and retail conveniences that are the biggest generators of pollution and waste. globalization has also been very poisonous for the planet.
brb. off to throw a car battery in the ocean :)
Reminds me of the paper straw in plastic wrapping. LOL
Or cities that ban plastic bags from grocery stores. So you end up putting a bunch of PLASTIC WRAPPED items into a paper bag. And you're supposed to feel better. LOL
I used to work for the government.
In the recycling plant we managed, i think something like 70% of all collected recyclable waste ended up going to the landfill.
Also, the finished products from the recycling plant? We were having trouble finding buyers.
The recycling plant lost money. Throwing everything into the landfill would have been cheaper for the government too. And most of what was collected as "recyclable" ended up in the landfill anyways.
Every business operates this way. The widget is sold at a price that is profitable. If it doesn't sell, it is waste and is written off.
Grocery stores generally do mark down items for sale.
Their profit margins are very thing. 1%-3%
There's not a lot of profit for them to need deductions to reduce.
Many local food banks already strike deals with grocery stores to get soon expiring items at discount or even free.
In the accounting world, expired food or other items is often called "spoilage."
I buy discounted bananas all the time. They are usually separate from the more fresh ones, and sometimes pre-packaged.
Any food I have that spoils goes to the farm animals that can still eat it and digest it.
Taxation is theft and people and business go out of their way not to get robbed. Oh, but the problem is them protecting themselves, not the fact that they are being robbed...