Food Waste Focus

The US EPA will be hosting a Resource Conservation Challenge (RCC) Web Academy devoted to food waste on Thursday, November 18,  2010 @ 1:00-2:30 PM (Eastern Time).  Here is the information: Food Waste Reduction and Recovery Waste?  This is food and it’s too valuable to waste! Join us to meet three outstanding leaders who are [...]

In August, the Northeast Recycling Council released a publication titled “Guidance for Special Event Food Waste Diversion.” Funded by the US EPA, the 102-page guide provides a number of useful tips, resources and case studies focused on food waste management at special events. Download the full guide here. Special events offer one of the best [...]

On September 1st, the U.S. E.P.A. announces the creation of a “Food Waste Recovery Challenge”.   From the announcement: Take the Food Recovery Challenge! How much of your food and money are you literally throwing away?  In 2008, American businesses and households generated 32 million tons of food waste.  Of that, 31 million tons (97%) was [...]

The U.S. E.P.A. recently released updates to its Food Waste Web Site.   This site is one of the very best places to learn about  issues related to food waste causes and management actions — and now it’s even better. The new changes include: revisions to the food waste recovery hierarchy to clarify the placement of [...]

Whats more likely to attract positive attention when outsiders tour through a kitchen: a compost bin filled with todays leftovers or an empty speed rack in a walk-in? In most all cases the compost bin steals the show. But the empty shelf actually has a much bigger story to tell. In fact, food waste prevention [...]

Last fall, researchers from the National Institutes of Health published a fascinating paper about food waste: The Progressive Increase of Food Waste in America and Its Environmental Impact. I met one of the lead authors, Kevin Hall, at a forum convened by the EPA in March focused on food waste reduction and diversion. From the [...]

Exciting News!  Martinsburg VA Medical Center (West Virginia) (a LeanPath customer), has achieved the honor and distinction of becoming a VA Sustainability Achievement Award winner.  They won the award for their Waste Watcher Program – which includes daily, electronic food waste tracking. VA Senior Sustainability Officer James M. Sullivan praised staff as “an excellent example [...]

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 [...]

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 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:  [...]