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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.
Fresh Del Monte Joins the Pacific Coast Food Waste Commitment to Help Cut Regional Food Waste in Half by 2030
Today, the Pacific Coast Food Waste Commitment (PCFWC) announced that Fresh Del Monte — a global produce company that is one of the world’s leading producers, distributors, and marketers of fresh and fresh-cut fruits and vegetables — is the first grower to sign on to PCFWC’s goal of reducing and preventing food waste by 50% along the West Coast of the United States by 2030 as a climate change solution.
Pacific Coast Food Waste Commitment Expands Food Waste Efforts to Hotels
In the United States, 35% of food goes unsold or uneaten. This waste has enormous impacts on the environment – consuming cropland, fresh water, and other natural resources, while contributing approximately 4% of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Food waste also affects the economy, notably on the Pacific Coast of the U.S. and Canada, which represents the world’s fifth-largest economy.
Drawdown Update Affirms Reducing Food Waste as a Leading Solution to Climate Change
Last week, Project Drawdown released a major update to its landmark 2017 analysis of how the global community can implement currently available and readily scalable solutions to avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change. The update includes new models and data that have emerged over the last five years.
USDA Addresses Supply Chain Issues, Adds Resilience and Fairness to Food System Goals
In response to disruptions of the food supply chain and the need to transform the food system to be more fair, competitive, and resilient, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced a new United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) framework. The goal of this framework is to create “more and better markets that will benefit both producers and consumers, as well as address longstanding issues intensified by the pandemic.”
The Next Farm Bill Can Save Money, Reduce Food Waste, Address Hunger, and Combat Climate Change
On April 26, the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic, in collaboration with the Natural Resources Defense Council, ReFED, and World Wildlife Fund, released “Opportunities to Reduce Food Waste in the 2023 Farm Bill,” a report detailing how Congress should prioritize food waste reduction in the next U.S. Farm Bill.