Food Waste Focus

Just a quick post to let everyone know that you can now get LeanPath and ValuWaste merchandise for your operations.  Many of you have asked about purchasing different items to give out as reward and recognition awards for the staff. Please feel free to visit this site anytime:  http://shop.cafepress.com/leanpath All merchandise has either the LeanPath [...]

We know about big food holidays – Christmas, Easter, Passover, Ramadan (fried honey donuts!).  We know about other holidays that include a particular type of food in their celebrations like St. Valentine’s Day (chocolate), St. Patrick’s (green beer, green cookies, green everything), Oktoberfest (beer).  But what about those ‘other’ food holidays? You see them sometimes [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

        LeanPath coaches speak with clients on a regular basis.  Often we learn new information that can help others reduce waste and we like to share those Hints and Tips with you:  Avoiding Pastry Waste: Who’s placing the order? Put ordering in the hands of the front-line manager or Chef. Some facilities put 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 [...]

This a great article done by the folks at CNet (http://www.cnet.com).  A public utility in the San Francisco-Oakland bay area is looking at new ways to convert food waste to usable energy.  there are a lot of restaurants and foodservice operations in their local area.  Collecting this food waste and converting it to energy, capturing [...]

We ran across this excellent post recently and thought you might like to see this.  A Boston area poultry farm has started thinking outside of the box (or coop)… Silverbrook Farms: Your Waste is our Treasure! Food waste (excluding poultry products) can be used to feed our hens – providing eggs, meat and fertilizer!   It’s [...]