This year’s ReFED Food Waste Solutions Summit was full of positive energy. Perhaps because this year is the 10-year anniversary of ReFED and its groundbreaking roadmap to reduce food waste (which we wrote about back in April here). Or because of the progress we’ve made over the last decade. Or the global economy and geopolitical environment making food waste ever more important. Or all of the above.

A few weeks ago, we celebrated the 10-year anniversary of a major milestone in the movement to reduce food waste in the U.S. The first-ever Roadmap to Reduce U.S. Food Waste by 20 Percent (aka “the Roadmap”) was published in 2016 by ReFED, complete with an economic analysis and breadth of solutions across the hierarchy of prevention, recovery, and recycling.

Leanpath’s CEO Andrew Shakman recently spoke on a panel at GreenBiz ‘26 - an annual meeting of the minds in the world of sustainable business - about how to effectively adopt new technologies for positive food system change, from agriculture and manufacturing to foodservice and end consumers.