The Salt 6:30 pm Mon November 28, 2011  Food Giant Unilever Says
Restaurants Need To Cut Food Waste  A prep cook drops apple
skins into a food scrap recycling container in San Francisco.
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Mon November 28, 2011 10:14 pm  Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch
conglomerate that makes blockbuster food products like
Hellmann's mayonnaise and Skippy peanut butter and supplies
thousands of food-service companies in 74 countries, is a
Fortune Global 500 company. If it decides it wants to do
something about food waste, it could keep a lot of perfectly
tasty morsels out of the garbage heap.  But up to now that
hasn't been a big priority, though food waste has emerged as one
of the central flaws in the global food system. That's according
to the U.N. Environment Program, which found in 2009 that more
than half the food produced today is either lost, wasted or
discarded.  Much of that wasted food never reaches consumers (it
happens at the farm), but food-service providers