The skill involved for many plants is sticking it in the ground and leaving it to do its thing.
Ask the 5 kale plants on my bathroom window. Got to transfer them to individual pots at some point. Then see if I can get a few more cuttings to make some more. Not sure how many to grow, 10-20 probably but I still need to put up bird netting in the area I plan to put them.
It’s not a liability thing there’s laws to protect businesses donating food in good faith. They would literally just throw it away than give it away because how dare anyone get anything for free.
They could donate the food to a food bank and be completely shielded from liability by Good Samaritan Act
They don’t want to because it means that poor people can eat for free (gasp) which might slightly impact the restaurant industry and indirectly reduce their profit margin by 0.1%
You are disregarding the storage and transportation of food that has a very limited shelf life along with requiring strict temperature control. It’s not as simple as tossing it all into a bag at the end of the night. It’s a significant logistical overhead.
Americans would rather chuck perfectly good food into a dumpster than entertain the possibility of summoning the collective fucking will to fix a VERY straightforward problem. The idea that they could just legislate some reasonable liability protections and make sure edible food gets to hungry people apparently requires a level of imagination and civic competence beyond anyone’s wildest dream. So much easier to blame “some asshole” for creating what is surely an insurmountable legal paradox. The food rots, needy people go hungry, and the US gets to pretend the problem is some unavoidable fact of life rather than admit they just couldn’t be arsed to try.
Easier & cheaper to just throw it away, so most businesses probably don’t bother. We would need to mandate and/or subsidize this behavior if we wanted people to actually do it.
Sure, but they have stuff to throw away other than food, too, so they’re paying for it regardless. Some places in the US make property owners pay for waste disposal separately, but even then it could be a flat fee so the business wouldn’t gain anything by throwing less stuff away. Some places just include it in property taxes, in which case, again, the business wouldn’t gain anything.
The amount of perfectly OK cheesecake that looks barely damaged but can’t sell but can’t take home is very high. But my small town bakery, I can take the store home with me if there’s product leftover.
In my limited experience (I found a succulent leaf on the street) the only skill one would need is to remind themselves to water it, like once a week maybe. All you have to do is drop it into pot with some soil and water it every now and then. Maybe some succulents are more finicky though. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah, I’ve got a couple succulents, and leaves will fall off and propagate on their own in the pot pretty often. All they really have to do is fall stem-side down into the dirt and it’ll grow roots and form a new plant. I just gave my buddy a small jade plant that grew from my larger plant that was originally itself a small auto-propagation from my dad’s plant.
I have succulents on my balcony that outgrow their pots. I break off chunks long enough to have a few root-hairs attached and drop them into the scruffy area at the side of the building. They can’t really root themselves there unless we get a bunch of rain, but I’ve seen a few people take one and it always makes me happy.
Stripping them off plants, yeah thats just damaging the plant itself and is shitty behaviour.
Off the ground? Now its crossing from damage into being pedantic about stuff that would go into a mulcher.
And I highly doubt that those with the patience and skill to propogate make up any significant margin whatsoever.
We got free water at Lowe’s outdoor lawn and garden so I’d stuff plants I found throughout my shit in one.
I hope this is a typo.
The skill involved for many plants is sticking it in the ground and leaving it to do its thing.
Ask the 5 kale plants on my bathroom window. Got to transfer them to individual pots at some point. Then see if I can get a few more cuttings to make some more. Not sure how many to grow, 10-20 probably but I still need to put up bird netting in the area I plan to put them.
That’s the same sort of business owners who would throw away uneaten food in restaurants and not allow employees to take it home.
That’s different because it’s a liability thing. Some asshole would sue over bad food which means nobody gets the food.
It’s not a liability thing there’s laws to protect businesses donating food in good faith. They would literally just throw it away than give it away because how dare anyone get anything for free.
this… people were gaslit to believe it’s a liability thing.
They could donate the food to a food bank and be completely shielded from liability by Good Samaritan Act
They don’t want to because it means that poor people can eat for free (gasp) which might slightly impact the restaurant industry and indirectly reduce their profit margin by 0.1%
You are disregarding the storage and transportation of food that has a very limited shelf life along with requiring strict temperature control. It’s not as simple as tossing it all into a bag at the end of the night. It’s a significant logistical overhead.
Looks like that act covers donations to places that aren’t going to be open at the end of the evening shift.
That’s the excuse, yes
the alternative is the trash that will never sue you ever.
The dumpster would also never place an order, not pick it up, then ask for said order for free since it’s going into the trash anyway.
Americans would rather chuck perfectly good food into a dumpster than entertain the possibility of summoning the collective fucking will to fix a VERY straightforward problem. The idea that they could just legislate some reasonable liability protections and make sure edible food gets to hungry people apparently requires a level of imagination and civic competence beyond anyone’s wildest dream. So much easier to blame “some asshole” for creating what is surely an insurmountable legal paradox. The food rots, needy people go hungry, and the US gets to pretend the problem is some unavoidable fact of life rather than admit they just couldn’t be arsed to try.
No, actually, most Americans are not happy about it, but you probably don’t care about nuance and just want to throw a fit
Most stabilized countries have laws in place for food and protections for donations.
I’m guessing there’s rules behind this one but in the US:
The Food Donation Improvement Act: This act expands those protections. It allows qualified businesses (like restaurants, supermarkets, and schools) to donate food directly to individuals in need rather than having to route it through a registered 501©(3) nonprofit intermediary. It also allows nonprofits to charge a nominal “Good Samaritan” fee just to cover the logistics and handling costs of distributing the food.
I don’t know the specifics of that one though.
Easier & cheaper to just throw it away, so most businesses probably don’t bother. We would need to mandate and/or subsidize this behavior if we wanted people to actually do it.
13% of food waste is redistributed the rest is used as compost or sent to a landfill.
Don’t you have to pay for waste disposal?
Sure, but they have stuff to throw away other than food, too, so they’re paying for it regardless. Some places in the US make property owners pay for waste disposal separately, but even then it could be a flat fee so the business wouldn’t gain anything by throwing less stuff away. Some places just include it in property taxes, in which case, again, the business wouldn’t gain anything.
If you don’t fill the bin with food, it takes longer to fill up. So you pay less.
Because the US is only a small handful of people with the same worldview…
Maybe only one of you has internet access and is frantically posting across media platforms.
You sure do always seem to post the same responses
? I don’t think that is the case. My fault for posting. Bye
Couldn’t you just sign a waiver to say you accept the risks?
unfortunately not really, there is a limit to how much liability you can waive and it’s not knowable before it’s tried in court.
so major ones
The amount of perfectly OK cheesecake that looks barely damaged but can’t sell but can’t take home is very high. But my small town bakery, I can take the store home with me if there’s product leftover.
In my limited experience (I found a succulent leaf on the street) the only skill one would need is to remind themselves to water it, like once a week maybe. All you have to do is drop it into pot with some soil and water it every now and then. Maybe some succulents are more finicky though. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah, I’ve got a couple succulents, and leaves will fall off and propagate on their own in the pot pretty often. All they really have to do is fall stem-side down into the dirt and it’ll grow roots and form a new plant. I just gave my buddy a small jade plant that grew from my larger plant that was originally itself a small auto-propagation from my dad’s plant.
I have succulents on my balcony that outgrow their pots. I break off chunks long enough to have a few root-hairs attached and drop them into the scruffy area at the side of the building. They can’t really root themselves there unless we get a bunch of rain, but I’ve seen a few people take one and it always makes me happy.