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## Food Waste Intelligence

## [How Sodexo's Soledad Hearon Builds Food Waste Prevention Champions in Healthcare](https://blog.leanpath.com/how-sodexos-soledad-hearon-builds-food-waste-prevention-champions-in-healthcare)

Posted By [Leanpath](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/leanpath) on Oct 12, 2026

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Ask Soledad Hearon where her passion for food waste prevention comes from, and she goes straight back to her childhood.

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## [How Sodexo North America Cut Food Waste in Half Across Hundreds of Kitchens: Webinar Takeaways](https://blog.leanpath.com/how-sodexo-north-america-cut-food-waste-in-half-across-hundreds-of-kitchens-webinar-takeaways)

Posted By [Leanpath](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/leanpath) on Sep 08, 2026

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Ask any of the NGOs or research organizations focused on the global food waste crisis how we get this problem under control, and they'll tell you the same thing: big organizations need to set big food waste reduction goals. That's exactly what Sodexo North America did. The region set a 50% food waste reduction target, and crushed it.

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## [The EU Made Food Waste Reduction Mandatory. Here's What Food Service Operators Must Do Before June 2027.](https://blog.leanpath.com/the-eu-made-food-waste-reduction-mandatory-heres-what-food-service-operators-must-do-before-june-2027)

Posted By [Leanpath](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/leanpath) on Aug 11, 2026

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## [New Research Holds Promise for Reducing Food Waste in Culinary Education Environments](https://blog.leanpath.com/new-research-holds-promise-for-reducing-food-waste)

Posted By [Leanpath](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/leanpath) on Jul 13, 2026

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Institutional kitchens face a universal challenge when it comes to pre-consumer food waste. This is particularly true in culinary education environments where trial, error, and experimentation are necessary for skill development. However, a recent study conducted at the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) by the Menus of Change University Research Collaborative (MCURC) and Leanpath, a MCURC Research Innovation Affiliate, offers insights that extend far beyond the classroom.

[Read More \>\>](https://blog.leanpath.com/new-research-holds-promise-for-reducing-food-waste)

## [Google exceeds its moonshot reduction in food waste — and data made it possible](https://blog.leanpath.com/google-achieves-its-moonshot-reduction-in-food-waste)

Posted By [Leanpath](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/leanpath) on Jul 06, 2026

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