Webinar Event: Food Waste vs. Food Excess

The first ever Zero Food Waste Forum was held earlier this month in Berkley, CA hosted by the Northern California Recycling Association (NCRA). The forum consisted of a gathering of global leaders in food waste prevention and recovery that brainstormed together on how decrease the current 40% food waste in the U.S. This is an absurd statistic being that 1 in 6 adults and 1 in 4 children are food insecure at some point during the year.

One of the topics discussed at the forum was the need to re-determine the meaning of “food waste.” As it stands now, ‘waste’ in this context means “material that is not wanted; the unusable remains or byproducts of something.” The issue is that a lot of this so-called ‘waste’ is actually edible, recoverable food. Referring to this ‘waste’ as ‘food excess’ could impact people’s perceptions.

On November 14th a LeanPath webinar will be available to guid you through designing a food waste management plan. You can sign up for the webinar, Managing Food Waste: A Micro-Training Session for Foodservice and Culinary Professionals, here. For more information on the food recovery hierarchy visit Food Recovery Challenge page on the EPA website here.