Celestaria
Celestaria t1_j1xqicp wrote
Reply to TIL about Jean-Louis Brenninkmeijer, an English billionaire who immigrated to Canada and is funding the creation of a miniature model of the whole country by _Kinel_
So this guy read Neil Gaiman's "The Mapmaker" and was like... "Seems like a worthy goal".
Celestaria t1_j0ufxi0 wrote
Reply to comment by it_is_Karo in [OC] We Tried and Ranked EVERY pizza in our city (MONCTON NB, CANADA) by ReelDeadOne
But… it’s a pizza pie.
Celestaria t1_iycwgmv wrote
Reply to As a non-American, reading On The Road, felt like a snapshot of postwar youthful Boomer mentality. by [deleted]
Kerouac and his contemporaries weren’t Boomers. They were part of the “Greatest Generation”, so called because they came of age in the Great Depression and fought in WWII.
Celestaria t1_jaijjkx wrote
Reply to comment by tahitithebob in [OC] Food waste around the world (kg/capita/year) by giteam
Looking at the link from OP, that specific data point seems to be based on the results of this study:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325118509_Determination_and_Quantification_of_Household_Solid_Waste_Generation_for_Planning_Suitable_Sustainable_Waste_Management_in_Nigeria
There's a PDF provided there by the researcher. Methods are on page 3, but to paraphrase, it's based on a stratified random sampling of 100 households (a total of 334 people) in Sapele.
A relevant quote from the results:
>By percentage composition, food waste has the highest (75%), the composition of food waste consists mainly of food left-over, vegetables, fish and meat waste, fruits, peels (cassava, yam, potato, orange, pawpaw, banana, plantain etc.).
They didn't really go into why so much waste is being generated, only suggested that much of this could be composted or used to generate green energy.