Food Waste Focus

We’ve all heard the staggering figures about food waste in the US: 40% of all food produced is wasted and it’s the largest single component filling up landfills. But what is the monetary value of all of that food being trashed? Until now, the figures and data available has been limited. But a newly published [...]

At LeanPath, we’re advocates for food waste prevention. However, even with systems in place to measure and prevent waste, some food scraps are inevitable. But those scraps don’t have to be trash-bound. A start-up company in the Pacific Northwest is offering the industry another new way to keep food scraps out of the trash and [...]

Every item we throw away contains a significant amount of invisible embedded energy and resources. But this “upstream” impact is often overshadowed because it’s sort of invisible to us—it’s all the resources that go into the food before it reaches your organization’s kitchen; at the farm, during transportation, in storage, etc. From fertilizer to herbicides [...]

Written by Andrew Shakman for Foodservice Equipment & Supplies; Published on Monday, 02 July 2012. Read the full article. Almost like a celebrity on a red carpet, food waste has begun to receive significant attention within the foodservice industry. This has occurred, in part, as a result of increased interest in foodservice sustainability and early [...]