Food Waste Focus

“P2Rx” stands for Pollution Prevention Resource Exchange. It was created over 12 years ago to provide easy access to high-quality pollution prevention information that promotes waste reduction throughout the United States. They discuss everything from energy credits for new equipment to food waste  reduction strategies to new local pollution laws.  Many of the centers host [...]

Hello everyone: I am hoping you could help us get the word out about the Food Service Composting Workshop on April 27th in San Diego. It is a pre-conference workshop, “Organics Recycling in the Food Service Sector.” Feel free to sign up yourself and forward to everyone you think might be interested! http://www.biocycle50.com/work.html April 27, [...]

We just found this article from February 2009 in the Seattle University student newspaper.  It describes how  Bon Appetit and Seattle University are using waste tracking tools from LeanPath as part of a comprehensive waste prevention program, in partnership with the Seattle Public Utilities: Waste not, want not. With the recent addition of a new system to [...]

Collecting pre-consumer food waste for composting is relatively easy.  This waste is fully under the control of the foodservice or restaurant operator and simply needs to be placed in a separate bin instead of the garbage  (this assumes you have a commercial compost hauler…if not, things become more complex).    Post-consumer food waste, on the other hand, is [...]

Recently in talking with some customers some felt that they could not reuse the leftovers they safely saved because there was no room in their set cycle menu.  But with a little pre-planning, you can leave some space in your daily service for safe and creative use of these items. Some examples from customers: 1. [...]

The Wall Street Journal reported today that “In a sign of what food executives fear is to come, crop futures prices leapt Tuesday on worries that any weather problems this summer could result in supply disruptions next year.” It’s highly unlikely that foodservice operators will see any relief soon on food purchase costs.  However, waste reduction [...]