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The INC met five times between June 1998 and December 2000 to elaborate the convention, and delegates adopted the Stockholm Convention on POPs at the Conference of the Plenipotentiaries convened from 22 to 23 May 2001 in Stockholm, Sweden. The negotiations for the convention were completed on 23 May 2001 in Stockholm.
This is a list of international environmental agreements.. Most of the following agreements are legally binding for countries that have formally ratified them. Some, such as the Kyoto Protocol, differentiate between types of countries and each nation's respective responsibilities under the agreement.
"Food waste refers to food such as plate waste (i.e., food that has been served but not eaten), spoiled food, or peels and rinds considered inedible that is sent to feed animals, to be composted or anaerobically digested, or to be landfilled or combusted with energy recovery."
That means about 5% of the nation's food waste is composted, with the rest ending up in landfills, where food is the most commonly found material. In landfills, food waste decomposes much slower ...
Thirty percent of food in American grocery stores is thrown out and the restaurant industry loses $162 billion annually to lost food.
Kay Masterson has always wanted to make her Boston-area restaurant more sustainable, partnering with an organic farm to get some vegetables close by and offering reusable containers for customers ...
Established in 1974, it is headquartered in Malmö with a main branch in Stockholm. [2] Its main vision is zero waste. [3] Tony Clark is its managing director since 2019. [4] It is a member of the Municipal Waste Europe, [5] an umbrella organisation of public waste management bodies in European countries that was established in 2008. [6]
The good news is that people are starting to wise up about food waste, and there are a lot of ways to reduce it, starting with staying mindful of when food actually expires.