Food Waste Focus

The U.S. E.P.A. recently released updates to its Food Waste Web Site.   This site is one of the very best places to learn about  issues related to food waste causes and management actions — and now it’s even better.
The new changes include:

revisions to the food waste recovery hierarchy to clarify the placement of Anaerobic [...]

On February 9th, First Lady Michelle Obama announced an online Food Environment Atlas.
The map is a collaboration between the USDA Economic Research Service, the Agricultural Marketing Service and the Food and Nutrition Service to share data resources. The map is also designed to include geographic coordinates for farmer’s market locations and farmers markets/farm stands [...]

Hello everyone:

We are passionate about food waste reduction!  We like to share our experiences, hints and tips with all of you.  Hopefully you can use these tools to reduce food waste in your operation.  We would like to share a new tool with you.  It’s a calculator that can help you learn about the different [...]

Hey Everyone!
Lets do this!  Our friends at Waste Aware Scotland are spending the news about the first International Plastic Bag Free Day on Saturday, September 12th: http://tinyurl.com/mgor6s

This is a great way to ‘source reduce‘ all those nasty plastic bags we get from the store.  Take a reusable cloth bag, use your backpack, messenger bag or [...]

Hey folks!
Just attended a good training webinar for the NEW Re-Trac program from WasteWise.  Re-Trac is a great program that can be used by any type of operation to “collect, organize, analyze and report” all recycling and waste.  Re-Trac is a web-based system that allows an operator to track many different types of waste:  Municipal/Solid [...]

The UK Government just released a series of reports called Food 2030 that were prepared by the Department for the Environment,  Food & Rural Affairs.
They focus on a range of food security issues, but target food waste as a major problem, noting:
Reducing food waste has the potential to cut carbon emissions equal to taking a [...]