Putting Surplus Food to Good Use
Putting Surplus Food to Good Use – A How-To Guide for Food Service Providers. This link takes you to the EPA website where you can download this informational 2-page document. The document has over ten...
View ArticleBoston – Your Waste is our Treasure!
We ran across this excellent post recently and thought you might like to see this. A Boston area poultry farm has started thinking outside of the box (or coop)… Silverbrook Farms: Your Waste is our...
View ArticleComing soon – the new EPA Food Waste Calculator
Hi folks – here’s a little industry ‘inside scoop‘ for you… I just received an e-mail from our favorite contact at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). She told me that they are almost...
View ArticleWasteWise and Re-Trac
Hey folks! Just attended a good training webinar for the NEW Re-Trac program from WasteWise. Re-Trac is a great program that can be used by any type of operation to “collect, organize, analyze and...
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Using Old Vegetable Oil
Just to recap - Reducing food waste at the source is the first and best thing you can do. It’s easiest, free and doesn’t take a lot of time. But what do you do with food that can’t be reduced any...
View ArticleFood Holidays and Reuse Opportunities
We know about big food holidays – Christmas, Easter, Passover, Ramadan (fried honey donuts!). We know about other holidays that include a particular type of food in their celebrations like St....
View ArticleFood Holidays and Reuse – April and May
In February 2010, we wrote a post about Food Holidays as possible reuse opportunities. We had great response and wanted to continue posting about these for this month and next. We mention these...
View ArticleFood Donation and Walt Disney World
How important is Food Donation? Looking at the EPA Food Waste Hierarchy we see that the best way to eliminate food waste is to reduce it at the source. Source reduction is the easiest, best and least...
View ArticleEngineers at Colorado School of Mines Turn Food Waste Into Glass
Materials engineers at the Colorado School of Mines recently discovered a new way to meet the world demand for glass: harvest the minerals necessary to make it from discarded food waste. For the...
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Food Network Series “The Big Waste” Puts Food Waste Front and Center
From the archives: as interest in food waste continues to grow, we want to share this slightly older but still very relevant material from Food Network. The Food Network gave food waste the spotlight...
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Waste Reduction Tip: “Chef’s Choice”
Picture this: you’re the head chef of a foodservice operation, it’s Friday evening, and it’s time to close the kitchen doors for the week and start prepping for the coming one. The thing is, you have...
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