Food Waste Focus

At LeanPath, we’re advocates for food waste prevention. However, even with systems in place to measure and prevent waste, some food scraps are inevitable. But those scraps don’t have to be trash-bound. A start-up company in the Pacific Northwest is offering the industry another new way to keep food scraps out of the trash and [...]

Every item we throw away contains a significant amount of invisible embedded energy and resources. But this “upstream” impact is often overshadowed because it’s sort of invisible to us—it’s all the resources that go into the food before it reaches your organization’s kitchen; at the farm, during transportation, in storage, etc. From fertilizer to herbicides [...]

Have you heard about the COOL 2012 campaign? A joint project of GrassRoots Recycling Network (GRRN), BioCycle and Ecocyle, it is a national initiative to inspire and educate state and local jurisdictions on the importance of getting compostable organics out of the landfill. One of the main targets of the campaign is food waste. The [...]

Last week Philadelphia mayor Michael A. Nutter and the Philadelphia Streets Department announced the launch of a new program called “Clean Kitchen, Green Community,” a pilot initiative aimed to assess how food waste disposers can help the city work toward its goal of becoming the greenest city in America. The city is partnering with InSinkErator, [...]

We tend to focus on the food waste we can see in our operations.  It’s dramatic, and often deeply disappointing.  What we can’t see as clearly is the food wasted before it ever reaches us:  at the farm, during processing, during transit. We only get to see the food which survives the supply chain.  Whenever we [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 New York Times had a detailed article on June 4 about how Stonyfield Farms has change the diets of their dairy cows to reduce methane emissions by 18%.   What, you may ask, does this have to do with food waste?  The answer is that chefs and managers who are working to reduce food waste [...]