Food Waste Focus

On October 7th, the White House Council on Environmental Quality announced the eight winners of the 2010 GreenGov Presidential Awards. The winner in the “Good Neighbor” category was the Nutrition and Food Services Team at the VA Medical Center in Martinsburg, West Virginia.  They were recognized for the totality of their sustainability efforts, which include [...]

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 Oregon Department of Environmental Quality and the City of Hillsboro, Oregon recently released a joint case study on waste prevention. Titled “Food Waste Prevention Case Study:  Intel Corporation’s Cafes“, the study reports on Bon Appetit Management Company’s use of LeanPath food waste tracking tools to prevent and minimize food waste at two Intel Cafes [...]

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 [...]

On February 9th, First Lady Michelle Obama announced an online Food Environment Atlas. The map is a collaboration between the USDA Economic Research Service, the Agricultural Marketing Service and the Food and Nutrition Service to share data resources. The map is also designed to include geographic coordinates for farmer’s market locations and farmers markets/farm stands [...]

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:  [...]

The UK Government just released a series of reports called Food 2030 that were prepared by the Department for the Environment,  Food & Rural Affairs. They focus on a range of food security issues, but target food waste as a major problem, noting: Reducing food waste has the potential to cut carbon emissions equal to [...]