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## Food Waste Intelligence

## [Promoting Sustainable Behavior to Reduce Food Waste](https://blog.leanpath.com/sustainable-behavior-to-reduce-food-waste)

Posted By [Janet Haugan, Vice President of Customer Success](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/janet-haugan-vice-president-of-customer-success) on Dec 08, 2016

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3 things you can do today to shift behaviors in your team. If you follow LeanPath and our food waste blog, you’ve likely heard us say this: food waste is a behavioral issue. You can implement processes, use technology, create mandates—but at the end of the day, if we can’t change behaviors, then we can’t begin to solve this problem.

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[Food Waste Prevention Newsletter](https://blog.leanpath.com/topic/food-waste-prevention-newsletter)

## [Leading Organizations Pushing Food Waste Measurement Into the Spotlight](https://blog.leanpath.com/food-waste-measurement-standard-of-excellence)

Posted By [Janet Haugan, Vice President of Customer Success](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/janet-haugan-vice-president-of-customer-success) on Oct 04, 2016

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The food waste movement has come a long way in recent years, moving definitively into the mainstream of sustainability conversations. Television hosts and celebrity chefs are talking about it, and businesses and governments are setting goals to reduce it. The EPA’s food recovery hierarchy is the long-time accepted standard for best practices in food waste reduction, with prevention firmly established at the top as the optimal solution. And though there are various techniques for prevention, daily measurement of waste is emerging as a ...

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[Food Waste Prevention Newsletter](https://blog.leanpath.com/topic/food-waste-prevention-newsletter) [Food Waste News](https://blog.leanpath.com/topic/food-waste-news)

## [Preventing Food Waste is Preferable to Biogas Conversion, Study Says](https://blog.leanpath.com/preventing-food-waste-preferable-to-biogas-conversion)

Posted By [Janet Haugan, Vice President of Customer Success](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/janet-haugan-vice-president-of-customer-success) on Feb 26, 2016

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Just last month the Norwegian University of Science and Technology released a study that compared the impact of collecting food waste to convert it to biogas (recycling) versus cutting food waste (prevention). A growing number of waste management plants in both the United States and Europe are processing food waste into biogas, which significantly reduces CO2 emissions when it replaces fossil fuels. But is this process a good long-term solution for the environment?

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[Latest News](https://blog.leanpath.com/topic/latest-news) [Food Waste Prevention Newsletter](https://blog.leanpath.com/topic/food-waste-prevention-newsletter) [Food Waste News](https://blog.leanpath.com/topic/food-waste-news)

## [Help for the Holidays: How to Cut Back on Food Waste at Home](https://blog.leanpath.com/how-to-cut-back-on-food-waste-at-home)

Posted By [Janet Haugan, Vice President of Customer Success](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/janet-haugan-vice-president-of-customer-success) on Nov 23, 2015

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Thanksgiving is right around the corner. For most of us, this holiday revolves around a full-table feast with turkey galore and all the festive trimmings. Delicious? Yes! But unfortunately, also wasteful in many cases. We thought this month presented a great opportunity to highlight some of the things we can (and should) be doing to reduce waste at home. Not just for this one holiday, but for the entire year.

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[Tips & Tricks](https://blog.leanpath.com/topic/tips-tricks) [Food Waste Prevention Newsletter](https://blog.leanpath.com/topic/food-waste-prevention-newsletter)

## [Nation’s First-Ever Food Waste Goal: Cut Food Waste in Half by 2030](https://blog.leanpath.com/nations-first-food-waste-goal)

Posted By [Janet Haugan, Vice President of Customer Success](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/janet-haugan-vice-president-of-customer-success) on Sep 24, 2015

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In case you missed it, there was big news in food waste this month.

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