首页
登录
职称英语
Experts in the food industry are thinking a lot about trash these days. Rest
Experts in the food industry are thinking a lot about trash these days. Rest
游客
2024-04-22
42
管理
问题
Experts in the food industry are thinking a lot about trash these days. Restaurants, colleges, hospitals and other institutions are compensating for the rising costs of waste in novel ways. Some are tracking their trash with software systems, making food in smaller batches or trying to compost and cut down on trash-hauling costs.
"We have all come to work with this big elephant in the middle of the kitchen, and the elephant is this ’It’s okay to waste’ belief system," said Andrew Shackman, president of LeanPath, a company that helps restaurants cut back food waste.
A 2004 University of Arizona study estimated that 40 to 50 percent of food in the United States is wasted. Wholesale food costs have risen more than 8 percent this year, the biggest jump in decades, according to the National Restaurant Association. Freshman students at Virginia Tech were surprised this year when they entered two of the campus’s biggest dining halls to find there were no cafeteria trays. Getting rid of trays has cut food waste by 38 percent at the cafeterias, said Denny Cochrane, manager of Virginia Tech’s sustainability program. Before the program began, students often grabbed whatever looked good at the buffet, only to find at the table that their eyes were bigger than their stomachs, he said.
That same phenomenon often happens at Oregon’ s Portland International Airport. Busy travellers often discard half-eaten meals into trash cans, adding dozens of tons of waste that the airport must pay the city to haul away. Now the airport is ramping up a three-year-old program to install food-only trash cans. The food waste is collected in biodegradable bags and given to the city to use as compost, said Stan Jones, aviation environmental compliance manager at the airport. Besides being environmentally friendly, the changes may save the airport money. It costs about $82 to have one ton of trash hauled from the airport to the city landfill. But food waste costs about $48 a ton to haul.
Cutting back on the waste can require spending money on software and training. LeanPath, based in Portland, Ore, sells a software system to track food being tossed out. Steve Peterson, head chef at the MGM Grand hotel in Las Vegas, said he was surprised when he installed the LeanPath system and saw the value of food that was going out the back door. Much of the waste came from sauces, dressings and trimmings that weren’ t eaten. To cut costs, Peterson decided to reduce serving sizes. He said customers weren’t bothered by the switch, which has helped him trim food waste by between 15 to 20 percent over 18 months. [br] The program operated at Virginia Tech______.
选项
A、does not work on freshman students
B、makes students take more food at the buffet
C、has cut food waste at the cafeterias
D、makes students eat less than they should
答案
C
解析
细节题。根据Virginia Tech将答案定位到第三段Getting rid of trays hascut food waste by 38 percent at the cafeterias,said Denny Cochrane,manager of VirginiaTech’s sustainability program.“弗吉尼亚科技大学可持续项目的经理丹尼·克莱思表示,把托盘取消后,各餐厅的食品垃圾已经减少了38%。”说明弗吉尼亚科技大学这个项目减少了餐厅食物垃圾,和C选项内容所表达的一致,所以答案选C。
转载请注明原文地址:http://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3565889.html
相关试题推荐
Expertsinthefoodindustryarethinkingalotabouttrashthesedays.Rest
Expertsinthefoodindustryarethinkingalotabouttrashthesedays.Rest
They’restillkids,andalthoughthere’salotthattheexpertsdon’tyetkn
They’restillkids,andalthoughthere’salotthattheexpertsdon’tyetkn
Here’sawarningfromhealthexperts:Sittingisdeadly.Scientistsareinc
Here’sawarningfromhealthexperts:Sittingisdeadly.Scientistsareinc
Here’sawarningfromhealthexperts:Sittingisdeadly.Scientistsareinc
[originaltext]Theworldhasbecomenoisierplace,sayexpertsattheLibrar
[originaltext]Theworldhasbecomenoisierplace,sayexpertsattheLibrar
HowWomenAreReshapingtheDefenseIndustryThedefenseind
随机试题
Wheredoesthewomanwanttogo?[br][originaltext]W:Excuseme,Iwanttowit
TheUnitedStatescallsforsomecountriestoresearchthebionicssince1960.[
作为辩证的否定的“扬弃”是()A.既保留又继承 B.彻底抛弃 C.既克服又
在发病过程中,邪气的作用是A.以上均非 B.发病的决定因素 C.发病的重要条
需在冷处储存的药品,其保存温度是指()。A.-20℃ B.-2℃~0℃ C
临终病人最后消失的一个感觉是A.视觉 B.嗅觉 C.味觉 D.痛觉 E.
A. B. C. D.
期货公司应当告知客户自主做出期货交易决策,独立承担期货交易后果,并不得泄露客户的
存货的加工成本是指加工过程中实际发生的人工成本等,不包含分配的制造费用。(
某住宅小区委托甲物业公司进行物业管理,甲物业公司委托乙市政公司对小区内的污水井、
最新回复
(
0
)