ONE GOOD READ: Cafes serve waste food
There have been efforts over the past couple of decades to start a large-scale organic waste compost operation, but it never really went anywhere. To be sure, there is some effort to manage waste and to get surplus supplies to food banks and shelters, for example. But now comes word from the United Kingdom that the latest craze is restaurants and supermarkets that specialize in discarded, but safe, food. CNN’s coverage gets into the touchy subject of whether supermarkets over-hype expiration dates and display some food as “Christmas decorations” that are unlikely to be bought.