Food Waste Focus

Toque Magazine, an online resource for culinary professionals focused on “what’s happening in the kitchen,”  just published a good overview article on food waste. The author is journalist Laurie Wiegler and the piece is titled “Whittling Away at Food Waste.“   It covers a range of contributing factors that cause food waste in restaurants.  It also [...]

The CBS Early Show ran a story on residential food waste on November 17th.  The piece focused on all the food thrown away in American homes. Read the CBS Story Although the challenges described in the CBS story are not at the same scale as those faced by commercial foodservice operations, some of the same [...]

There are two free Internet sites which help U.S. foodservice operators find commercial composting facilities near them. BioCycle Magazine’s online database, located on the web at www.findacomposter.com.  The site — which was recently redesigned — offers a searchable database of companies which process organic waste.  Unfortunately, not all composters choose to list themselves so the [...]

Today Sodexo Campus announced preliminary results from their food waste tracking pilot program. The early findings are strong, showing almost a 30% reduction in pre-consumer food waste as a result of daily food waste tracking. Sodexo partnered with LeanPath on this initiative. deploying LeanPath food waste tracking tools.  Eight college and university sites have been [...]

The New York Times discussed residential food waste today in the “Well” column by Tara Parker-Pope in the Health section: Why should we care about food waste? For starters, it’s expensive. Citing various studies, including one at the University of Arizona called the Garbage Project that tracked home food waste for three decades, [Author Jonathan] [...]

The US EPA will be hosting a Resource Conservation Challenge (RCC) Web Academy devoted to food waste on Thursday, November 18,  2010 @ 1:00-2:30 PM (Eastern Time).  Here is the information: Food Waste Reduction and Recovery Waste?  This is food and it’s too valuable to waste! Join us to meet three outstanding leaders who are [...]