Simple awareness reduces college food waste

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – College students threw out 15 percent less food after researchers peppered dining halls with short anti-waste slogans, according to new study. “If you can get it into people’s minds to talk about food waste, that’s when little changes take effect,” said lead author Kelly Whitehair, an instructor of hospitality management and dietetics at Kansas State University. “Change doesn’t have to involve a huge elaborate campaign,” she told Reuters Health. …