At this year’s Climate Week NYC, food waste was decidedly on the agenda.

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.

On May 12, Leanpath Co-Founder and CEO Andrew Shakman delivered the closing keynote address at the 2022 ReFED Food Waste Conference. "Unfortunately," he states, "the scale of our movement does not yet match the scale of the food waste problem." Reflecting on 18 year of driving food waste change, Andrew identifies the limiting beliefs that are holding us back--and how we overcome them. Watch the video above or read the following transcript. After this fantastic conference, everyone should be armed and ready to drive change. And I hope ...

After a lengthy Covid-related break, Leanpath was pleased to join numerous colleagues, partners and food system changemakers for the ReFED 2022 Food Waste Solutions Summit in Minneapolis last week. We would like to share our congratulations to the ReFED team for an expansive, exceptionally well-curated session that covered multiple sectors and themes (consumer change, climate, capital, DEIJ, health, innovation, etc.) while underscoring the need for urgent action to halve food waste in accordance with the 2030 United Nations’ goal. The...

Hello everyone and happy Earth Day. I'm Andrew Shakman, Co-Founder and CEO Andrew Shakman. I have one simple thought and request for you as we collectively reflect today on the changes needed to sustain our planet. My request: please don’t underestimate the importance of food waste. When Earth Day was founded 52 years ago, food waste prevention was not a central concern. But this year, the newest report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change references food waste 125 times. And there’s a reason for that.