The Roadmap to Reduce U.S. Food Waste by 20 Percent and other ReFED reports are available for download.
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Restaurants and other foodservice businesses have been hit hard by COVID-19, and many still don’t know when they’ll be able to reopen completely – or at all. These guidelines can help you add food waste reduction procedures into your reopening and post-COVID operational plans.
Download the GuidelinesOur new report offers guidance to the entire food system on how to support innovative food recovery organizations as they scale their work to reduce food waste and fight hunger. Includes best practices, case studies, and expert insights from a network of world-class food business and technology executives, capital providers, innovators, and subject matter experts.
Download The Accelerator Report2019 marked the transition from awareness to action. Checkout ReFED’s 2019 Annual Report below to discover our history, what milestones we achieved, and what our 2020 objectives are.
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The Accelerator Expert Network Knowledge Series highlights interviews with members of the ReFED Nonprofit Food Recovery Accelerator's Expert Network, representing a diverse group of food businesses, capital providers, government agencies, technology companies and food systems subject matter experts. Given the Accelerator's aim to catalyze ideas and inspire actions that will lead to a doubling of healthy food available to the 40 million Americans facing food insecurity, a new interview from an Expert Network member will be released each week throughout the course of the 3-month program, running from September - December, 2019.
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Building off of the Roadmap to Reduce U.S. Food Waste by 20 Percent, ReFED developed stakeholder-specific Action Guides for Retail, Foodservice, Restaurant, and Foundation leaders to drive food waste reduction.
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The 2018 U.S. Food Waste Investment Report details key trends in the capital and innovation landscape and highlights specific examples of philanthropic, public, and private food waste investment, including a Special Report on Foundation Funding.
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The ReFED Innovator Database is a living compilation of 350+ commercial and nonprofit entities that are turning the food waste problem into an entrepreneurial opportunity.
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Research current food waste policy at the federal and state levels and discover best practices and recommendations for policy improvements.
Details about data validation, methodology, excluded solutions, and full data sets are available in the Technical Appendix.
Download the Technical AppendixSave the Food is a national public service campaign to combat food waste developed in partnership between the Ad Council & the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).
A fun and easy to understand 20-minute segment describing the causes and problems of food waste.
An overview report on the causes of food waste in the United States.
The Food Loss & Waste Protocol (FLW Protocol) is a multi-stakeholder effort to develop the global accounting and reporting standard for quantifying food loss and waste.
The Food Waste Reduction Alliance (FWRA) is a collaborative effort of the Grocery Manufacturers Association, the Food Marketing Institute, and the National Restaurant Association. The FWRA’s mission is to reduce the volume of food waste sent to landfill by addressing the root causes of waste and by securing pathways to donate or recycle unavoidable food waste.
Organizations that take part in EPA's Food Recovery Challenge pledge to improve their sustainable food management practices and report their results.
Published since 1960, BioCycle is the go-to magazine and website on composting, organics recycling, anaerobic digestion, and renewable energy.
Comprehensive source prevention, recovery, and recycling assistance for businesses and institutions. The information is specific to Massachusetts, but much of it is applicable to other states and regions.
The FAO is collaborating with donors, bi- and multi-lateral agencies, and financial institutions and private sector partners (the food packaging industry and others) to develop and implement a program on food loss and waste reduction.
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