Food Waste Focus

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 [...]

We talk a lot about reducing food waste at foodservice operations.  Reducing the amount of foodwaste put into both the waste stream and recycling stream (composting) is extremely important.  Reduction is important for other recycled items, just as reduction is important for foodwaste.  Reduce-Reuse-Recycle… Do you have a lot of recycling every week?  Here is [...]

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 [...]

Did you know? – We waste a lot of food in the USA. A new study, from the University of Arizona (UA) in Tucson, indicates that a shocking 40% to 50% of all food ready for harvest never gets eaten.  That food can be either damaged in transit, considered trim waste as part of the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The New York Times recently wrote about a critical food waste sanitation problem that has developed in Egypt.  The background is that the Egyptian government required all pigs in the country to be slaughtered this past spring in a (misguided) effort to reduce swine flu risk. What they failed to realize was that these pigs were playing a [...]

Wow!  What a great article from our friends at Biocycle and JG Press:  http://www.biocycle.net/.  They recently sent this nugget of information and we thought it would be great to pass along to everyone. This article gives an insider view on starting and running a composting plan at special events and festivals.  It mentions a few [...]

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:  [...]