Waste Not, Want Not: Tackling Food Waste in Your Company

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Our Speakers

Carlos Rojas, Sprouts Farmers Market

Carly Smolak, Forager Project

Dana Gunders, Food Systems Efficienado

Lara Dickinson, OSC2; Co-Founder, Climate Collaborative

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Our Speakers

Carlos Rojas, Sprouts Farmers Market

Carly Smolak, Forager Project

Dana Gunders, Food Systems Efficienado

Lara Dickinson, OSC2; Co-Founder, Climate Collaborative

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https://youtu.be/WREXBUZBrS8

The [Less] Food Waste Basics Dana Gunders

Photo courtesy of Just Eat It movie.

40 Percent of food in the United States goes uneaten.

Food waste has serious resource impacts

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Future Food Demand

And it costs a lot $162 - $218 billion

Source/image: ReFED

Source/image: ReFED

Framing: “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle”

Image: NRDC

Framing: Focus on high-resource products first

Image: Savethefood.com

Framing: The Policy Landscape

SO WHAT TO DO?

• How much? • What is designed in? What’s accidental? • What are you driving up or downstream? Or vice versa? • Where’s it going?

Figure out your waste-print

• Gather • Inspire • Train • Empower

Enlist your people

• Numeric • Footprinting • Process • Training

Set short term goals

• Big and small • Hi and low tech • New models • On and off-site

Find your solutions

Some Retail Solutions

Source/image: ReFED

Some Brand Solutions

Images: WRAP UK & Forager

Flexible packaging

Extended Shelf Life

Use by-products

Rethink products & processes

Standardize Date Labels

FMI/GMA Product Code Dating Initiative:

• “BEST If Used By” (or “BEST If Used or Freeze By”) = quality phrasing • the product is safe to use or consume, but has exceeded the window of its optimal taste or

performance.

• “USE By” (or “USE or Freeze By”) = safety phrasing • for perishable products with potential safety implications or material degradation of

critical performance over time, such as food spoilage or an SPF declaration on sunscreen.

• ”Sell by” and “Display Until” closed/coded

What about your own waste?

Thank you!

dana@danagunders.com

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Panel Discussion/Audience Q&A 

Carlos Rojas, Sprouts Farmers Market

Carly Smolak, Forager Project

Dana Gunders, Food Systems Efficienado

Lara Dickinson, OSC2; Co-Founder, Climate Collaborative

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