Food Waste Focus

Food Management Magazine recently profiled Swedish Medical Center’s efforts to reduce food waste through continuous waste tracking.  Using systems from LeanPath,  Swedish has been tracking waste data for approximately one year at its largest location, First Hill.  Their stellar results caught the attention of the editors at Food Management and Swedish has now expanded the program [...]

Putting Surplus Food to Good Use – A How-To Guide for Food Service Providers. This link takes you to the EPA website where you can download this informational 2-page document. The document has over ten separate links for additional resources on reducing food waste. http://www.epa.gov/osw/conserve/materials/organics/pubs/food-guide.pdf There are many ways food service providers can improve the [...]

We just read this in another e-newsletter and thought it would be interesting for everyone to see the sheer volume of waste we generate… “Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship,” said Benjamin Franklin Our wasteful habits wouldn’t matter much if there were just a few of us—a Neanderthal hunting [...]

The U.S. generates 32 million tons of food waste per year. Traditional waste disposal providers get paid $2.4 billion to bury 97% of this waste in landfills – where it releases Methane. Methane is a greenhouse gas 25 times more potent than Carbon-CO2. (by the way – unless your compost facility has a methane ‘capture’ [...]

I just read this article: “Getting Green Done” http://www.greenbiz.com/podcast/2009/04/10/getting-green-done It’s is actually a transcript from a pod cast interview with Auden Schendler, the executive director of sustainability at the Aspen Skiing Company and author of the new book Getting Green Done This is exactly the type of stuff that I run into on a daily [...]

A friend sent us a clip from this video: “It’s in Your Hands“. (The full video is available for purchase from their website.)  It is a video guide to composting restaurant food waste.  This video is designed to help all restaurants maximize their composting capabilities, which can provide a new revenue stream and/or reduce operational [...]

We ran across this great article recently. It was published in GreenBiz.com. This article gives a really sharp focus to waste in the work place. Although many of you will probably not collect all the waste from your location like Burt’s Bees – or sift through it in hazmat suits! – a little spot checking [...]

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 [...]

The State of Oregon, Department of Environment Quality, announced that it has awarded a waste prevention grant to the City of Hillsboro, Oregon, to work with Intel Corporation to minimize pre-consumer food waste at its Jones Farm and Ronler Acres campuses in Oregon.  Bon Appetit Management Company, which manages the food at Intel, will be [...]

Sustainable Industries published a piece today on Swedish Medical Center in Seattle and their use of LeanPath’s food waste tracking tools.   Swedish has been a foodservice pioneer for years; in fact they were one of the very first hospitals in the US to launch hotel-style room service for patient feeding.  They are playing the same [...]