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## Food Waste Intelligence

## [Top 5 blog posts of 2020](https://blog.leanpath.com/top-5-blog-posts-of-2020)

Posted By [Sam Smith](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/sam-smith-1) on Dec 03, 2020

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As we all adjusted to the challenges of 2020, something notable rose to the surface in foodservice: measuring food waste was no longer just a way to cut costs and be more efficient, it became a key tool in the learning and adapting process kitchens went through as they rose to the challenge of the new normal. What a kitchen wasted was one of the few real-time data points it could use to understand what was working and what was not as volumes dropped and service styles changed dramatically. Controlling food waste became more important ...

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[food waste measurement](https://blog.leanpath.com/topic/food-waste-measurement)

## [Reducing food waste by changing behavior in the kitchen](https://blog.leanpath.com/reducing-food-waste-by-changing-behavior-in-the-kitchen)

Posted By [Steve Finn, VP of Food Waste Prevention & Sam Smith, Director of Marketing](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/steve-finn-vp-of-food-waste-prevention-sam-smith-director-of-marketing) on Nov 24, 2020

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UK-based WRAP, the Waste Resources Action Programme, recently announced a food waste reduction campaign entitled “Wasting food: it’s out of date.” This is a highly visual effort to convey the scale of the food waste challenge through eye-opening facts (ex. the UK discards 20 million slices of bread daily) and the associated deep environmental, social, and financial impacts (ex. over 500,000 acres of land are unnecessarily used to produce the inputs for that wasted bread). Building on WRAP’s Love Food, Hate Waste work, the idea is to f...

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#### Topics:

[food waste measurement](https://blog.leanpath.com/topic/food-waste-measurement) [Kitchen Culture](https://blog.leanpath.com/topic/kitchen-culture)

## [Report: fixing the food system key to meeting Paris climate targets](https://blog.leanpath.com/fixing-the-food-system-key-to-meeting-paris-climate-agreement-targets)

Posted By [Leanpath](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/leanpath) on Nov 13, 2020

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According to a new report, the energy, transportation and manufacturing sectors could drastically reduce their carbon emissions, but the world still wouldn’t hit Paris climate agreement targets because of greenhouse gases from the food system. A staggering reminder of the need to prevent food waste, among other food system improvements.

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#### Topics:

[Food Waste Around the Globe](https://blog.leanpath.com/topic/food-waste-around-the-globe) [Food Waste News](https://blog.leanpath.com/topic/food-waste-news) [Sustainability](https://blog.leanpath.com/topic/sustainability)

## [Listen to Leanpath CEO Andrew Shakman on the Nothing Wasted Podcast](https://blog.leanpath.com/listen-to-leanpath-ceo-andrew-shakman-on-the-nothing-wasted-podcast)

Posted By [Leanpath](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/leanpath) on Oct 30, 2020

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Waste 360's Nothing Wasted Podcast sat down with Leanpath Co-Founder and CEO Andrew Shakman to discuss food waste as a "nexus issue": the fact that when you prevent food waste, you also prevent other bad things from happening. Food waste prevention reduces greenhouse gas emissions, it stops fresh water from being squandered growing food that only gets wasted, and it leaves valuable resources in the food system for those who are food insecure. It's a big deal. Hear Andrew elaborate on this and other topics. Go straight to the podcast h...

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[Sustainability](https://blog.leanpath.com/topic/sustainability)

## [Leanpath makes it faster and easier to cut food waste and costs with new suite of prevention tools](https://blog.leanpath.com/leanpath-makes-it-faster-and-easier-to-cut-food-waste-and-costs-with-new-suite-of-tools)

Posted By [Sam Smith](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/sam-smith-1) on Oct 14, 2020

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Leanpath is proud to announce the evolution of food waste prevention technology. Impact Suite is a powerful new set of tools that go beyond tracking food waste to actually guiding kitchens through specific actions to reduce their largest food waste issues.

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