Food Waste Focus

When it comes to food waste there are many solutions. Recently Kansas State University launched a simple print campaign to reduce plate waste. Throughout the cafeteria they posted signs that read “Eat what you take. Don’t waste food.” This awareness campaign resulted in a 15% reduction in plate waste. The KSU program is a great [...]

McKinsey & Company recently published a report that identified opportunities in the area of resource productivity. They discovered 130 areas that when combined lead to 3.7 trillion dollars in savings. Some of the top areas include buildings (energy efficiency), farm yields, and food waste.  McKinsey suggests that there is a 252 billion (2010 dollars) opportunity [...]

  This fall Cal Dining launched a food waste prevention project in conjunction with Stop Waste. Using LeanPath systems Cal Dining has seen a significant reduction in waste. By the end of fall semester they achieved a 35% reduction in pre-consumer (kitchen) food waste According to Associate Director of Residential Dining, Chuck Davies “Once you [...]

When we think about food waste we often reflect on the food that goes in the trash can directly from our plates. As it turns out the food waste problem starts much further up the chain at the farm. Each year millions of tons of food go in the trash because these items are misshapen. [...]

A key part of the holiday season is good food, lots of it. As you gear up for your winter festivities consider some of the following food waste prevention tips from the World Watch Institute: Serve the right portions. It can be tempting to overproduce for fear of running out. A way around this is [...]

The European Union designated September 15 2011 as EU Food Safety Day and decided to focus the 2011 observance of this annual event on food waste prevention and minimization, noting there are strong links between food safety and food waste prevention: Often there are strong synergies between ensuring food safety and limiting food waste. For [...]

Food waste is a major issue in the United States. According to A.T. Kearney, 80 of the 900 billion pounds of food produced in the U.S. end up in the trash can. This amount of food waste is enough to fill 320,000 jumbo jets every year. Of the 80 billion pounds of waste, 65% comes [...]

Food waste is a concern for every foodservice operation. In the U.S. approximately 40% of food is wasted between the farm and the plate. Wasted food is especially troubling in K-12 operations because this means that children are missing key nutritional opportunities, well contributing to overflowing landfills. A recent study in Loveland, Texas highlights just [...]

The New York Times recently published a column titled That’s Not Trash, That’s Dinner which offered a series of useful suggestions for ways to use fruit and vegetable trimmings that often go to waste: CARROT, CELERY AND FENNEL LEAVES Mix small amounts, finely chopped, with parsley as a garnish or in salsa verde: all are [...]

Food waste is a global issue. From rising food costs to famine, what we do with food is a central concern in the 21st century. In the U.S. 40% of food ends up as waste. This is a huge statistic in light of the growing pressures to feed 6.8 billion people on one tiny planet [...]