Chemistry
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Community Fridge launches in KW, aims to tackle food insecurity and waste
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A small group of Waterloo students recently launched a local project that is intended to reduce food waste and provide nutritious food access at no cost to the Kitchener-Waterloo community. Community Fridges are not a new concept, and their installations have seen success as they have started appearing throughout Canada, but this is the first…
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Buying imperfect produce could be the answer to Canada’s food waste problem
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View this post on Instagram We are selling these spotty fair trade organic bananas at a steep discount of $0.39/lb! 🍌 They’re the perfect ripeness for freezing for smoothies and banana nice cream! Huge thanks to @pfenningsfarm for collaborating with us to help us prevent these bananas from going to waste! Would you…
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Laurier’s first bio and chem PhD student is creating better liquid crystals
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The future is and always will be unknown. We can guess and worry and plan, but never fully anticipate. For Katie Psutka, four years ago the future may have looked especially daunting, given that she was asked to blaze a trail as one of the first students accepted into Wilfrid Laurier University’s new Chemistry and…
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New store looks to cut down on waste in Waterloo
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Zero Waste Bulk is Waterloo’s first zero waste grocery store scheduled to open Fall 2018, the store will be located at 110 King Street South just two kilometres away from campus. Ellin Park and Kevin Choi, co-founders of Zero Waste Bulk, opened the store in hopes of encouraging others to become more sustainable or even…
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