food waste reduction News
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City of Cupertino Honored with U.S. EPA National Award for Innovative Food Waste Reduction Efforts
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Regional Administrator for the Pacific Southwest, Jared Blumenfeld, today will award the City of Cupertino the national Food Recovery Challenge Innovation Award at a ceremony held at Asian-specialty food store Marina Food in Cupertino, Calif. The City is being recognized for its unique partnership with waste hauler Recology to reduce food waste and ...
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EPA, USDA Join to Set Nation’s First Food Waste Reduction Goals with Charities and Private Companies
On Wednesday, September 16, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Acting Deputy Administrator Stan Meiberg will join U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack as well as private industry and charitable organizations to announce the United States’ first food waste reduction goals at City Harvest’s food recycling facility in Long Island City, N.Y. The announcement occurs just one ...
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PerfoTec has now a profile on the NPEX stock exchange!
As of yesterday investors can buy certificates of shares and / or bonds via NPEX stock exchange. PerfoTec is expecting growth in the United States and will use a part of this funding for this objective. An other part of this funding is reserved in the expecting growth in PerfoTec Film solutions. As mentioned before, PerfoTec is on the eve of the introduction for a pallet solution and the funding ...
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Cupertino honored as national food waste reduction innovation leader
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today awarded the City of Cupertino (Calif.) its Food Recovery Challenge’s national Innovation Award for the city’s extensive efforts to reduce food waste. Cupertino’s efforts include leading-edge work to integrate food waste reduction goals into its business partnership with a local waste hauler and to aid local businesses compost their ...
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Donarbon calls for more waste prevention campaigns during recession
People will respond more to waste reduction campaigns during a recession, according to Cambridge-based waste management company Donarbon. Speaking to MRW waste promotions manager Mark Shelton said that now was an excellent time to run waste reduction campaigns and that Donarbon were planning a food waste reduction campaign with its local council partners, based on the Waste & Resources ...
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New EU-project starts to reduce food waste across Europe
16 September marked the start of the EU Horizon 2020 funded project "Resource Efficient Food and dRink for the Entire Supply cHain" (REFRESH). 26 partners from 12 European countries and China will work towards the project's goal to contribute towards the objectives of reducing food waste across Europe by 30% by 2025, reducing waste management costs, and maximizing the value from unavoidable food ...
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Circular Economy can be a game-changer to reach ESR targets
Zero Waste Europe has responded to the consultation on the Effort Sharing Regulation (ESR) by highlighting the contribution that the waste sector can bring to a low-carbon economy, and calling the European Commission to have higher ambition. In the response Zero Waste Europe pointed out that the implementation of the Circular Economy Package could deliver far more GHG emission reductions than ...
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World Food Day: Commission underlines commitment to reducing food waste in Europe
Today marks World Food Day - an occasion to remind ourselves that around a third of food is wasted globally. This amounts to 1.3 billion tons per year according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation. About 90 million tonnes of food is wasted annually in Europe – agricultural food waste and fish discards not included. Janez Potočnik, European Commissioner for Environment, said: ...
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`Waste not, want not` are words to live by for kraft foods employees
Whether people call it garbage, rubbish, trash or junk – everyone creates waste. And no matter what it"s called, too much waste ends up in landfills that can affect nearby communities and cost lots of money to manage. In short, people need to find ways to create less waste and find better uses for the waste they produce. At Kraft Foods, employees are doing just that, and they"re getting big ...
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EPA and USDA Join Private Sector, Charitable Organizations to Set Nation’s First Goals to Reduce Wasted Food
Today, U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy and U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the United States’ first-ever national food waste reduction goal, calling for a 50-percent reduction by 2030. As part of the effort, the federal government will lead a new partnership with charitable organizations, faith-based organizations, the private sector and local, state and ...
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Reducing food waste could save the global economy $300 billion a year
Reducing consumer food waste could save between US$120 and 300 billion per year by 2030 according to a new report by WRAP (The Waste & Resources Action Programme) and the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate. To achieve this would require a 20-50% reduction in consumer food waste. One third of all food produced in the world ends up as waste, while the value of global consumer food ...
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Normandy 2.0: Hello automation. Goodbye manual waste entry.
Tacoma, WA. With 20 years of applied knowledge and research on the deep costs of industrial food waste, Feed Commodities LLC and Normandy Waste Management Systems are pleased to announce their latest 2015 service plan, Normandy 2.0. The goal: actually add value to the food waste processing industry with streamlined, user-friendly waste tracking software. Best of all, it is completely ...
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Courtauld Commitment 2 targets unveiled
The Waste & Resources Action Programme has officially launched Courtauld Commitment 2 (4 March) which aims to achieve a more sustainable use of resources over the entire lifecycle of products, throughout the whole supply chain. WRAP has confirmed that it has set a “WRAP-owned” 10% carbon reduction target for signatories to meet. Signatories will have to reduce their packaging by weight, increase ...
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General Mills Joins U.S. Food Waste Challenge as Founding Partner
General Mills today was named a founding partner of the U.S. Food Waste Challenge, a collaborative initiative between the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The U.S. Food Waste Challenge urges producer groups, processors, manufacturers, retailers, communities, and other government agencies to reduce food loss and waste, recover wholesome ...
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Courtauld Commitment 3 supply chain targets on track for success
WRAP today published the second interim report of Courtauld Commitment 3, which shows that manufacturing and retail waste has significantly reduced against the baseline 2012 figure. Activity by signatories has helped achieve a considerable reduction in traditional grocery ingredient, product and packaging waste in the manufacturing and retail operations of participants, down ...
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Tackling food losses and waste in the Near East and North Africa
Reducing high food losses and waste will be critical to improving food availability, achieving food security, and reducing stress on natural resources in the fast-growing Near East and North Africa (NENA) region, FAO said. The region relies on imports to meet over 50 percent of its food needs, yet it loses up to a third of the food it produces and imports, including about 14-19 percent of its ...
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Less food waste results in land use savings, higher consumer welfare and a smaller agro-food sector
If private households and the retail sector ( including wholesale, hotels and restaurants) in the EU reduce food waste by 40% in 2020, this will result in annual savings of € 123 per person. The total savings for the EU will amount to € 75.5 billion. Households will be able to spend this money on other things, increasing their welfare. LEI Wageningen UR was commissioned by the European ...
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Retailers take action to prevent food waste
Retailers have committed to take voluntary action in waste prevention, particularly on food waste. At the Retail Forum in Brussels yesterday they confirmed their continued belief in the need to move to a resource efficient economy in spite of the challenging economic situation. Looking to the sustainability goals they had set themselves in key areas in precious years, such as selling more green ...
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EPA Spotlights Food Recovery with Atlanta Community Food Bank
To begin the holiday season, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials toured the Atlanta Community Food Bank (ACFB) and met with staff to discuss the importance of food waste reduction as part of the agency’s Food Recovery Action Week. The week is a reminder to consumers and businesses alike of the importance of reducing wasted food. EPA Assistant Regional Administrator Ken ...
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New England Institutions Recognized for Diverting Food Waste
Four New England organizations were among only 14 organizations honored nationally by EPA for their success in keeping wasted food out of landfills. EPA is also issuing “Food Recovery Challenge Regional Achievement Certificates” to 24 organizations in all six New England states. Americans throw out more food than any other type of waste. In 2013, 37 million tons of food waste were ...
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