Food Waste Focus

While the following trends are not fully here today, they’re on the horizon: Customers Demand More Information. Customers have been clamoring to understand their food better in recent years: Where did it come from? Who grew it? Is it safe? These customers expect transparency around food. This attitude will expand beyond food sourcing into the [...]

A few months ago Joe Carbonara, the editor of Foodservice Equipment and Supplies Magazine, asked our president Andrew Shakman to look forward to 2010 and think about new trends and ways waste management might evolve.   We have posted excerpts from the article on this blog over the past five Wednesdays. Here is excerpt 5 of 5 [...]

A few months ago Joe Carbonara, the editor of Foodservice Equipment and Supplies Magazine, asked our president Andrew Shakman to look forward to 2010 and think about new trends and ways waste management might evolve.   We are posting excerpts from the article on this blog for the next five Wednesdays. Here is excerpt 4 of 5 [...]

Foodservice operators are looking for ways to avoid landfilling disposable items such as drinking cups, plates, and to-go containers. The best solution is to reuse service ware – convert from disposables to durables.  But this is not be possible in many scenarios. The alternative is to buy environmentally preferable disposables, but this can be tricky.  [...]

A few months ago Joe Carbonara, the editor of Foodservice Equipment and Supplies Magazine, asked our president Andrew Shakman to look forward to 2010 and think about new trends and ways waste management might evolve.   We are posting excerpts from the article on this blog for the next five Wednesdays. Here is excerpt 3 of 5 [...]

A few months ago Joe Carbonara, the editor of Foodservice Equipment and Supplies Magazine, asked our president Andrew Shakman to look forward to 2010 and think about new trends and ways waste management might evolve.   We are posting excerpts from the article on this blog for the next five Wednesdays. Here is excerpt 1 of 5 [...]

This article gives a funny take on the challenges of composting at home.  The “Mommie Composter” makes a compelling case for ‘source reduction’. http://blog.oregonlive.com/pdxgreen/2009/09/first_step_to_composting_dont.html The writer also gives a few good tidbits of information about the amount of food wasted in a typical home.   Example: Most of the wasted food is still in it’s original [...]

Recently we have seen a lot of news articles focused on food waste.  Many studies are quoted, a lot of numbers are cited – dollars, percentages and weight. An Australian e-newsletter, Inside Waste Weekly spoke about the sheer amount of waste produced in their country. Research by The Australia Institute shows Australians are dumping $5.2 [...]

There are so many ways to prevent food waste – that I don’t think we could list them all. We try, however, to pass along every hint and tip we have. On this blog, we mostly focus on tips for source reduction at large foodservice operators. Sometimes we blog about ways to reduce waste at [...]

What is C.O.O.L.?  Cool for the environment, cool for the Earth… This is what’s “cool”:  COOL2012 stands for “Compostable Organics Out of Landfills by 2012“.   Check out the link to get a comprehensive overview of the program.  http://www.cool2012.com/ PROBLEM: Adding food and paper to landfills is heating the planet. SOLUTION: Get COOL.  Reduce or eliminate [...]