Food Waste Focus

We talk a lot about reducing food waste at foodservice operations.  Reducing the amount of foodwaste put into both the waste stream and recycling stream (composting) is extremely important.  Reduction is important for other recycled items, just as reduction is important for foodwaste.  Reduce-Reuse-Recycle… Do you have a lot of recycling every week?  Here is [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Wow!  What a great article from our friends at Biocycle and JG Press:  http://www.biocycle.net/.  They recently sent this nugget of information and we thought it would be great to pass along to everyone. This article gives an insider view on starting and running a composting plan at special events and festivals.  It mentions a few [...]

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:  [...]

Hi folks – here’s a little industry ‘inside scoop‘ for you… I just received an e-mail from our favorite contact at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).  She told me that they are almost finished with the newest version of the Food Waste Calculator.  It should be done later this month (August) and ready for [...]

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 [...]

Hey everyone: These are two great articles from “Food Management” magazine, April 2009.  Andrew recently blogged about these, but here are the links to the full articles. Green Space: Scaling Back Overproduction: http://food-management.com/segments/healthcare/scaling-back-overproduction-0409/ Strategic Thinking: Always Evaluate the Cost of Doing Nothing:  http://food-management.com/business_topics/equipment/always-evaluate-cost-0409/

Amazing the helpful information that you find on the internet… One of our favorite sites is the EPA website (United States Environmental Protection Agency).  http://www.epa.gov/.  To say there is a volume of information is an understatement – although it is sometimes hard to navigate. But the page that caught our attention today, focuses on managing [...]