Food Waste Focus

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 [...]

What is “Food Rescue”? Food Rescue: the practice of safely retrieving edible food that would otherwise go to waste and distributing it to those in need. Why is this important? 90% of low-income households with at least one child under the age of 12 use food pantries and soup kitchens and also participate in 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 [...]

The University of Dayton has banished trash cans from its dining services operation.  The trash can removal is part of a committment to reduce waste by 90%.  Read the press release here.    What’s interesting is how Dayton has chosen to focus on waste diversion through composting.  While composting is a much better alternative to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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:  [...]

Hi folks – here’s a little industry ‘inside scoop‘ for you… I just received an e-mail from our favorite contact at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).  She told me that they are almost finished with the newest version of the Food Waste Calculator.  It should be done later this month (August) and ready for [...]

Here at the offices of the “Food Waste Flyer” – we see a lot of articles and information fly across our desks and computer screens.  We try to keep everyone focused on food waste (pun intended!) and more specifically, source reduction of food waste.  When something interesting pops up we like to pass it along [...]

You’ve heard this expression before: “You can’t manage what you don’t measure.”  Many people today use this expression, especially those in the ‘green’ fields of source reduction, recycling, energy conservation.  What should you measure?  How do you take what you’ve “measured” and use it to “manage” your business (improve your margins, generate profit, save cold [...]