Food Waste Focus

Encouraging news from a giant in the supermarket industry.  Hopefully others will follow. This was published on May 14th GreenBiz.com DUBLIN, Calif. — Safeway stores recycle about 85 percent of their solid waste through a series of programs that have diverted hundred of thousands of tons of garbage from landfills. The company’s 85 percent diversion [...]

Putting Surplus Food to Good Use – A How-To Guide for Food Service Providers. This link takes you to the EPA website where you can download this informational 2-page document. The document has over ten separate links for additional resources on reducing food waste. http://www.epa.gov/osw/conserve/materials/organics/pubs/food-guide.pdf There are many ways food service providers can improve the [...]

We just read this in another e-newsletter and thought it would be interesting for everyone to see the sheer volume of waste we generate… “Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship,” said Benjamin Franklin Our wasteful habits wouldn’t matter much if there were just a few of us—a Neanderthal hunting [...]

We stumbled across this great website.  It is called “Earth 911“.  http://earth911.com/ This very comprehensive website can tell you where to recycle just about anything. They have tabs for everything from household glass to automotive,  construction, electronics and paint.  Some of the recycling centers are your standard city recycling center, but several others are listed [...]

Remember that cartoon on School House Rock – “I’m just bill“?  It followed a bill through all the stages of becoming a law. Cute characters, catchy music. Well – this cute video follow “Miles the Can” through the different stages of becoming a can, and then all of his different recycled ‘lives’ – (minus the [...]

This article was published in “Inside Waste Weekly“, an e-newsletter that is focused on the waste industry in Australia.  All of the ideas and practices mentioned in this article can be done here in the U.S.A.  The newsletter is a great read for anyone in the waste industry, but also has great articles for foodservice [...]

The U.S. generates 32 million tons of food waste per year. Traditional waste disposal providers get paid $2.4 billion to bury 97% of this waste in landfills – where it releases Methane. Methane is a greenhouse gas 25 times more potent than Carbon-CO2. (by the way – unless your compost facility has a methane ‘capture’ [...]

A friend sent us a clip from this video: “It’s in Your Hands“. (The full video is available for purchase from their website.)  It is a video guide to composting restaurant food waste.  This video is designed to help all restaurants maximize their composting capabilities, which can provide a new revenue stream and/or reduce operational [...]

We ran across this great article recently. It was published in GreenBiz.com. This article gives a really sharp focus to waste in the work place. Although many of you will probably not collect all the waste from your location like Burt’s Bees – or sift through it in hazmat suits! – a little spot checking [...]

Hello everyone: I am hoping you could help us get the word out about the Food Service Composting Workshop on April 27th in San Diego. It is a pre-conference workshop, “Organics Recycling in the Food Service Sector.” Feel free to sign up yourself and forward to everyone you think might be interested! http://www.biocycle50.com/work.html April 27, [...]