{"id":11689,"date":"2017-03-09T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T18:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/premierfoodsafety_OLD\/?p=11689"},"modified":"2017-03-09T10:00:03","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T18:00:03","slug":"university-uses-weights-to-scale-back-on-food-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/university-uses-weights-to-scale-back-on-food-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"University uses weights to scale back on food waste"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>James Madison University has decided to address the issue of food waste on it&#8217;s campus.  They have started an annual program named Weigh the Waste.  The event is a week long and students place food they were going to throw away on a scale in the dining hall.  At the end of the week the school added up the amounts and there was a whopping 817 pounds of food being thrown away in just one week.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"source\" href='http:\/\/www.foodservicedirector.com\/industry-news-opinion\/news\/articles\/university-uses-weights-scale-back-food-waste' target='_blank' rel=\"noopener\">University uses weights to scale back on food waste<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Madison University has decided to address the issue of food waste on it&#8217;s campus. They have started an annual program named Weigh the Waste. The event is a week long and students place food they were going to throw away on a scale in the dining hall. At the end of the week the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}