Food Waste Focus

McKinsey & Company recently published a report that identified opportunities in the area of resource productivity. They discovered 130 areas that when combined lead to 3.7 trillion dollars in savings. Some of the top areas include buildings (energy efficiency), farm yields, and food waste.  McKinsey suggests that there is a 252 billion (2010 dollars) opportunity [...]

The American Hotel and Lodging Education Association recently published a new book on green foodservice titled: Greening Food and Beverage Services: A Green Seal Guide to Transforming the Industry. This book was developed by Green Seal, the well-known non-profit organization which develops science-based standards to certify green claims. In 2009, Green Seal released GS-46, a [...]

The CBS Early Show ran a story on residential food waste on November 17th.  The piece focused on all the food thrown away in American homes. Read the CBS Story Although the challenges described in the CBS story are not at the same scale as those faced by commercial foodservice operations, some of the same [...]

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 [...]

The American Hospital Association just unveiled a new web site designed to educate hospital CEO’s and trustees about sustainability in healthcare.   Titled the “Executive Primer on Hospital Environmental Sustainability” the site includes overviews of several topic areas, including Food. The food section of the web site discusses waste as one of the key trends [...]