Food Waste Focus

Last week Philadelphia mayor Michael A. Nutter and the Philadelphia Streets Department announced the launch of a new program called “Clean Kitchen, Green Community,” a pilot initiative aimed to assess how food waste disposers can help the city work toward its goal of becoming the greenest city in America. The city is partnering with InSinkErator, [...]

We were pleased to exhibit at the National Restaurant show in Chicago this year (NRA 2010).  Andrew Shakman was one of the presenters at the NRA Conserve Pavilion.  He was able to give three speeches over the course of four days. This link will take you to the presentation for “ABC’s of Food Waste Management: Reduction [...]

We’ve written in the past about “Green Garbage Disposers” and continue to follow this topic closely.  The basic concept is that food waste can be ground into fine particles by a commercial garbage disposal, sent into a waste water treatment system, and then this organic material can be converted at the waste water treatment plant [...]

Once managers and staff members begin a waste tracking/prevention program, we often see a spike in “expired” products – items which have exceeded acceptable time limits.  The reason is that these teams are doing a great job at safely saving leftovers but they need to identify enough good opportunities to utilize the leftovers before they [...]

Have you heard the term Zero Waste? If you answered “yes”, you’re not alone. Many foodservice managers and chefs have been learning about Zero Waste initiatives recently and looking specifically at the feasibility of zero food waste. Operators tend to have one of two reactions: * That’s an impossible goal, we can’t run out of [...]

Love Food but Hate Waste? Here at LeanPath, we talk about Food Waste Reduction on a regular basis.  Reducing food waste through tracking, goal setting and monitoring.  We give hints and tips about best practices from the many hospitals, colleges and corporate clients we deal with on a regular basis.  We love to hear when [...]

Recently we have run across a few interesting blogs about school children and food waste.  What are our children learning about food waste?  What is the outcome?  Will it help them to develop lifelong habits? LeanPath has been in contact with a class from East Academy in Tennessee.  A group of kids there have started [...]

It seems that Food Waste and Food Waste Reduction strategies have finally made it to the ‘hot topic‘ list. We have seen a huge increase in the number of webinars focused around food waste and reduction strategies in recent months.  Below are just some of those available in the coming months. Check out these TWO [...]

Is there really an i-phone App for Food Waste? Yes- it’s true! The folks at Waste Aware Scotland have created an i-phone app that helps the home consumer learn how to reduce food waste. “The app provides consumers with easy to use interactive tools such as a portion size planner; recipe finder for leftover ingredients; [...]

Just to recap – Reducing food waste at the source is the first and best thing you can do.  It’s easiest, free and doesn’t take a lot of time. But what do you do with food that can’t be reduced any farther?  Well, in order from best to least desirable, first feed people (donate to [...]