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## Food Waste Intelligence

## [4 questions to reveal whether your kitchen's trim waste is under control](https://blog.leanpath.com/4-questions-to-reveal-whether-your-kitchens-trim-waste-is-under-control)

Posted By [Robb White, CEC CCA AAC; Executive Chef & Food Waste Prevention Catalyst](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/robb-white-cec-cca-aac-executive-chef-food-waste-prevention-catalyst) on Oct 04, 2022

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Trim waste is the second largest source of food waste in kitchens, just behind overproduction. Some trim waste is unavoidable. Regardless, it all represents a financial hit: while you may not eat an orange peel, your kitchen still paid for it. And protein trimmings are most costly than ever. So it’s important to make sure your kitchen accumulates as little trim waste as possible. To help with that, here are four questions to ask your kitchen manager, chef or frontline team to make sure reducing trim waste is top of mind.

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## [Consumer awareness of the food waste crisis continues to rise](https://blog.leanpath.com/consumer-awareness-of-the-food-waste-crisis-continues-to-rise)

Posted By [Steve Finn, VP of Sustainability & Public Affairs](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/steve-finn-vp-of-sustainability-public-affairs) on Sep 29, 2022

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Today, September 29th, we celebrate the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste, an important day which was added to the UN calendar three years ago – and we were excited to join our colleagues at the Future Food Institute in bringing this to fruition. Three years from its creation, the need to draw attention to the scale of the food waste challenge is more important than ever. A new report from the World Wildlife Fund, for example, notes that 40% of global food production is lost or wasted annually, with food waste alon...

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## [5 food waste questions I always get asked](https://blog.leanpath.com/food-waste-questions-i-always-get-asked)

Posted By [Robb White, CEC CCA AAC; Executive Chef & Food Waste Prevention Catalyst](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/robb-white-cec-cca-aac-executive-chef-food-waste-prevention-catalyst) on Sep 06, 2022

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Questions. Everyone has them. I have been fortunate enough to work with hundreds of organizations and thousands of chefs and most of them have the same thing in common: they have a food waste problem and they want a solution for it. I get asked A LOT of questions. Most of the questions I get asked are about repurposing - like, “Chef, do you have a recipe for orange peels?” or “What do I do with leftover pizza dough?” Most of these types of questions have to do with chefs looking for recipes or ideas to creatively turn trim waste or ov...

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## [Climate, water and food shortages top consumer concerns: food waste prevention addresses all](https://blog.leanpath.com/climate-water-and-food-shortages-top-consumer-concerns-food-waste-prevention-addresses-all)

Posted By [Sam Smith](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/sam-smith-1) on Sep 01, 2022

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Over the past 12 months the environmental issues that have seen the most increase in concern among consumers are climate change, water shortages and food shortages, according to a new survey from market research firm Mintel. All three of those–as well as 8 of the full 10 most pressing environmental concerns among consumers–can be directly addressed with a single initiative that has a nexus impact: preventing food waste. These new findings, combined with other recent research showing increased awareness of food waste among consumers, r...

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## [Food waste prevention myth #1: My team doesn’t have time to track and prevent food waste](https://blog.leanpath.com/food-waste-prevention-myth-1-my-team-doesnt-have-time-to-track-and-prevent-food-waste)

Posted By [Sam Smith](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/sam-smith-1) on Aug 23, 2022

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Food waste prevention–the only way to address food waste that delivers triple-bottom-line benefits–requires new kitchen tools and workflows. For busy kitchens with thin margins, this rightly brings up questions – and can lead to misconceptions. One of the biggest myths about food waste prevention is that it takes too long. In fact, food waste tracking and the prevention it enables not only saves money, it saves time, making kitchen teams more efficient. Let’s dig a little deeper into this myth and get a better idea of the actual ROI o...

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