Latest food waste Stories

OWARECO, LLC, an organic and food waste management company, will partner with Westchester County’s Department of Environmental Facilities to pilot an innovative NET Zero food waste management project to be located at the County’s H-MRF Facility in Valhalla, New York. Valhalla NY (PRWEB) May 10, 2013 During the April 30, 2013 “Food Rescue Forum for Westchester-Based Schools & Campuses” hosted by the Food Bank for Westchester, Mr. Robert Astorino, Westchester County Executive,...

Sodexo Foundation grants $150,000 in start-up funding to burgeoning student movement to donate extra food from colleges to hungry Americans. Gaithersburg, MD (PRWEB) May 08, 2013 Sodexo Foundation continues its investment in youth engagement and the fight against hunger with a $150,000 grant to the Food Recovery Network, advancing their work fighting food waste and hunger nation-wide. The Food Recovery Network (FRN) is a network of college students fighting hunger and food waste by...

$150,000 in funding supports student-led efforts to donate nutritious surplus food in local communities GAITHERSBURG, Md., May 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sodexo Foundation continues its investment in youth engagement and the fight against hunger with a $150,000 grant to the Food Recovery Network, advancing its work to fight food waste and hunger nationwide. The Food Recovery Network (FRN) is a consortium of college students fighting hunger and food waste by recovering surplus food from...

Menu of Change report finds hospitals serving less meat and sugar sweetened beverages, increasing sustainable food purchases and creating healthy food environments Reston, VA (PRWEB) May 06, 2013 Health Care Without Harm’s Healthy Food in Health Care program has issued its third Menu of Change report, tracking the progress of the health care sector toward healthy and sustainable food service operations and highlighting the work being done to advance these efforts nationally and in...

CHARLOTTE, N.C., April 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- They say one man's trash is another man's treasure. This Earth Day, it certainly rings true for a newly open recycling facility converting wastewater into fuel. BlackGold Biofuels of Charlotte has opened an innovative recycling facility for restaurant kitchens' wastewater, cleaning up the water and recovering a biofuel. While it's common to recycle deep fryer oil, recycling oils from kitchen wastewater has proven much more elusive. The...

Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online At the 245th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society in New Orleans this weekend, keynote speaker John Floros said that feeding the world has to include reducing food waste in developed countries. Referring to agricultural innovations that began in the 1960s, Floros said, "We will need another 'Green Revolution' to feed the world by 2050. That will mean scientific innovations, such as new strains of the big...

DEARBORN, Mich., Feb. 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Ford's new five-year global waste reduction strategy calls for a 40 percent per vehicle reduction in the amount of waste sent to landfill between 2011 and 2016 - equal to just 13.4 pounds per vehicle worldwide The new five-year global waste reduction strategy encompasses Ford's overall "Reduce, reuse and recycle" commitment that applies to all facets of the company, from the vehicles it makes to the facilities where they are made...

Ozonator LLC home of the popular Green Refrigerator Machine that updates family refrigerators to help keep foods fresher longer and its efforts to stop fresh food waste has been posted, pinned and tweeted on Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter as well as reviewed on mommy blogs resulting in over 1.3 million impressions. Las Vegas, NV (PRWEB) January 28, 2013 Today, Ozonator, LLC, announced that the Green Refrigerator Machine’s Green Savings Hero Campaign to stop food waste by updating...

Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online As the global population continues to grow at an astounding rate, and as food stocks continue to dwindle due to a number of factors, more and more people around the world will be left with less food on their plate. And when you tie in an unsettling report on food waste, the issue becomes all too surreal. A new report by the Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) states that as much as half of the world’s food supply (more...

Ozonator LLC announces their newly launched Green Savings Hero mission is already a success thanks to partners from all over the nations joining to share the Green Refrigerator Machine that slows food decay with its battery operated ozone technology. Care2 Healthy Living, BSM Media and other food, environmental and mommy bloggers have joined the partner program which pays green rewards for sharing the message to stop fresh food waste. Las Vegas, NV (PRWEB) November 30, 2012 Today, Kevin...