There was a largely new set of faces this month, and it was good to get to meet even more people interested in supporting each other on our low-waste journey. The conversation was so engaging I didn't take copious notes, so these minutes recreated from memory. We talked about reducing food waste mainly in these four categories: 1. Composting food scraps and other organic materials. Sending food to the landfill is apparently a major source of methane generation, whereas food in compost piles produces hardly any methane and lots of good soil additives. Sometimes, it also produces rodents and we chatted a bit about that side of it, too. Lancaster doesn't have curbside compost collection, and we lamented this lack. I'm thankful to Eve for forwarding me this NYTimes article on the subject: One thing your city can do: reduce food waste. 2. Wasting less food in the first place. It just so happens that Consumer Reports emailed me about 15 minutes before the ZWL meeting with...