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What a kitchen wastes is one of the few real-time data points it can use to understand what's working and what's not. Our top blog post of the year took a deep dive into how Mount Holyoke, a women's college in Massachusetts, USA, leveraged food waste tracking to its fullest. #2: [International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste: a time to demand action](https://blog.leanpath.com/international-day-of-awareness-of-food-loss-and-waste-a-time-to-demand-action) Leanpath is proud to have played a role at the United Nations in creating the designation of September 29 as the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste In recognition of this important day, Leanpath CEO Andrew Shakman offered a video message on the state of the global food waste fight.  #3: [Sodexo rolls out Leanpath at 1,200 sites globally. Here's how one site has used it to adapt to COVID disruptions](https://blog.leanpath.com/sodexo-rolls-out-leanpath-at-1200-sites-globally.-heres-how-one-site-has-used-it-to-adapt-to-covid-changes) In 2021, Leanpath continued its rollout of food waste prevention solutions at Sodexo sites around the world. We marked the milestone of 1,200 deployments with a review of how one of those sites was preventing food waste as it adapted to COVID-19 changes. #4: [7 reasons why food waste prevention matters: a week of insights leading up to Earth Day](https://blog.leanpath.com/7-reasons-why-food-waste-prevention-matters) In the lead up to Earth Day 2021, we gave chefs and managers talking points to bring to their daily stand ups, reminding their teams why preventing food waste is so important. 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