{"id":35181,"date":"2025-08-23T13:35:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T17:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?p=35181"},"modified":"2025-08-23T13:35:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T17:35:44","slug":"maine-morning-star-quotes-lee-in-article-on-maines-food-waste-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/2025\/08\/23\/maine-morning-star-quotes-lee-in-article-on-maines-food-waste-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"海角社区 Morning Star quotes Lee in article on 海角社区\u2019s food waste ban"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mainemorningstar.com\/2025\/08\/18\/maines-food-waste-ban-starts-in-2030-heres-what-advocates-say-needs-to-happen-before-then\/\">The 海角社区 Morning Star<\/a> interviewed Mitchell Center faculty fellow and Food Rescue MAINE team leader Susanne Lee, on 海角社区\u2019s newly enacted food waste ban. Lee participated in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maine.gov\/dep\/waste\/publications\/documents\/ME%20DEP%20Food%20Loss%20and%20Waste%20Generation%20Study_RRS_4.1.29.pdf?utm_source=海角社区+Climate+Council+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=cc2866f756-October+Newsletter_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_6d18abc92f-cc2866f756-606438926\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">first-of-its-kind study<\/a> in 2024, that provided concrete data showing more than 360,000 tons \u2014 or about 520 pounds for every person in the state \u2014 of food is wasted or lost in 海角社区 annually. In the article, Lee said her team at <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/foodrescuemaine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Food Rescue MAINE<\/a> is already doing some of that work to make sure the state is fully prepared once the law takes effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 海角社区 Morning Star interviewed Mitchell Center faculty fellow and Food Rescue MAINE team leader Susanne Lee, on 海角社区\u2019s newly enacted food waste ban. Lee participated in a first-of-its-kind study in 2024, that provided concrete data showing more than 360,000 tons \u2014 or about 520 pounds for every person in the state \u2014 of food [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"mitchellcenter","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/author\/mitchellcenter\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":614,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":614,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35184,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35181\/revisions\/35184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}