Food Waste Focus

The Iowa Health System, which cares for 2.5 million patients each year,  has been working to prevent and minimize food waste at healthcare sites across the state of Iowa.  They started over three years ago, in 2008, and have grown the effort to six hospitals spanning the state. How has Iowa Health tackled source reduction [...]

NPR recently ran a story titled, “Gleaning: A Harvest for The Needy by Fighting Waste“.   The article describes how modern agriculture leaves 96 Billion pounds of food in fields and notes that “gleaners” are starting to organize to harvest and provide it to those in need.  This is a great thing. It also raises a [...]