The transition to a greener, more sustainable world can often seem daunting, especially as a business or other large organization. With nearly every aspect of your operations impacting the environment in some way, where do you even begin? For many organizations, food waste is an often overlooked aspect of sustainability, but getting your food [Read More]
Food waste is a significant challenge for most grocery stores. According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), grocery stores generate an average of 43 billion pounds of food waste annually. Unfortunately, traditional methods of managing this excess food waste can be a major expense and are quite harmful to the environment. As a result, [Read More]
More than 70 billion pounds of food waste ends up in landfills each year, producing methane, a potent greenhouse gas, as it decomposes. If your organization produces a high volume of food waste, finding sustainable solutions for this waste should be a top priority. Not only will strategic disposal of food waste reduce your carbon footprint, [Read More]
As governments, large companies, and other organizations become increasingly aware of the importance of sustainable practices, aerobic and anaerobic digestion have come to the forefront as two potential solutions for food waste management. While both aerobic and anaerobic digestion are types of methods to deal with food waste, they involve different processes, produce different [Read More]
Recent estimates indicate that roughly 40% of all food produced in California never gets eaten – resulting in mass amounts of organic waste. In order to reduce the amount of food waste that goes to landfills, the California Senate passed a historical bill that has major implications for everyone in the state of California, including all [Read More]
Almost half of the food produced in the world for consumption every year – approximately 1.3 billion tonnes – gets lost or wasted. What is causing us to add an enormous amount of food waste to the land fill every year? We could all benefit from making more informed decisions when it comes to [Read More]
Sustainable food waste management is about reducing areas of waste throughout the whole supply chain. Food waste should be thought about in a much more detailed and systematic way – it has a negative impact on society. People should rethink how they use food so that there’s less wasted. It starts with natural resources, [Read More]
