Ohio State professor Brian Roe to manage $2.5 million USDA-funded food-waste-reduction initiative

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Ohio State professor Brian Roe to manage $2.5 million USDA-funded food-waste-reduction initiative

Brian Roe, Ohio State’s Fred N. VanBuren professor of farm management, said “about 30% of food that people bring into their homes is often never eaten.” Credit: DML/Star Tribune (via TNS) [Original caption: To meet its goals for a zero waste future, Hennepin County wants more residents to compost food scraps and other organic waste. However, county officials recently decided to abandon a plan to build an anaerobic digester near the Brooklyn Park…