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Progress in Food Waste Reduction on the West Coast
A cornerstone of the Pacific Coast Food Waste Commitment (PCFWC) is data collection and sharing. But why is data so critical to food waste reduction initiatives? Because it allows everyone in the food supply chain—from the farmer to the grocer to the consumer—to find out how much food is being wasted, where the waste is happening, and the reasons why the waste is being generated. Once baseline measurements are determined, they can be used to target waste hotspots through any number of interventions.
Grocery Stores Report Significant Progress In Reducing Food Waste, New Study Finds
A new study from the Pacific Coast Food Waste Commitment shows that grocery retailers made the most significant progress ever reported in the United States on reducing food waste in the retail sector. The analysis shows that over the four-year period from 2019 to 2022 (the latest year for which data is available), grocery retailers decreased the number of tons of unsold food in their regional operations by 25%—nearly 190,000 tons of food valued at $311 million—which represents a decrease in the amount of food at risk of going to waste.
Low Carbon Construction Task Force Releases Vision and Action Plan
The PCC has released a Vision and Action Plan to promote a regional low-carbon construction sector that promotes equity-centered policies, job creation, and regional trade. The Vision and Action Plan outlines three pathways along with strategies and actions that will move the Pacific Coast region toward the vision of reducing embodied carbon through low-carbon construction. Buildings are responsible for at least 39% of global energy-related carbon emissions each year, and 11% comes from embodied carbon.
ALDI Partners with Pacific Coast Food Waste Commitment to Help Cut Regional Food Waste in Half by 2030
The Pacific Coast Food Waste Commitment is teaming up with ALDI – one of America’s fastest growing grocery retailers – to cut food waste along the West Coast of the United States by 50% by 2030. Through this partnership, which builds on ALDI efforts to reduce waste throughout its operations, the retailer’s 99 stores across California will be collaborating with industry peers to share data, best practices, and operational insights to accelerate collective progress in reducing food waste.
Move Over, ChatGPT. AI is Coming for Food Waste, Too
ChatGPT has been all over the news for its ability to create well-written concepts with minimal prompting, leading many to herald a new era of artificial intelligence. But it’s not the only game in town in terms of innovative AI. WWF, in collaboration with the Pacific Coast Food Waste Commitment, Afresh, and Shelf Engine, conducted pilots using AI purchasing systems in two different grocery retail chains to reduce food waste and improve profits.
Rising to the Food Waste Challenge: Q&A with Julia Person, Bob’s Red Mill
Bob’s Red Mill partnered with the Pacific Waste Food Waste Commitment, along with TripleWin Advisory, to develop an employee engagement campaign to reduce food waste in their whole grain milling and packaging facility in Milwaukie, Oregon. The details of the campaign and its results are available in a new case. We caught up with Julia Person, Sustainability Manager at Bob’s Red Mill, to discuss lessons from the campaign and how and why the company is working to address food waste.
Pacific Coast Food Waste Commitment Releases First Three Case Studies
The PCFWC is thrilled to publish the first set of case studies aimed at surfacing learnings and insights from a unique public-private effort to accelerate action and progress toward companies’ food waste and climate commitments. The Pacific Coast Food Waste Commitment has brought together leading food businesses to publicly report their food waste data on an annual basis, and to pre-competitively share both best practices and challenges in a series of working groups.
Aramark and Compass Group Become Newest Signatories of the Pacific Coast Food Waste Commitment to Help Cut Regional Food Waste in Half by 2030
Aramark and Compass Group — two of the country’s leading foodservice companies — have officially committed to the PCFWC’s goal of reducing food waste by 50% along the West Coast of the United States by 2030. This pre-competitive partnership builds on each company’s ongoing efforts to reduce, reuse, and recycle food waste across their operations.
The Urgent Need for Governments to Commit to Food Loss and Waste
Working for the world’s largest conservation organization on some of the biggest issues that will define our future, including the future of my own children, seems like something most people would be excited about. But the truth is, I wonder each day why it’s so difficult to get the world committed to ending food waste.