Help your city move beyond food waste
Insights and best practice case studies on how cities across the globe are addressing food waste
Salling Group leads Danish retailers to reduce food waste
Salling Group is leading retailers in Denmark to reduce food waste. The group runs several supermarket chains across the country. Since 2014, they have reduced their food waste by 27.7 percent. So what steps have they taken to achieve these results? And how are they measuring their progress?
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US action to fight food waste
What is the world’s largest economy doing to tackle food waste? I attended the 2018 US Food Waste Summit to find out.
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How Three Italian Cities Are Achieving Best-Practice Food Waste Recycling
One of the biggest challenges to recycling food waste is getting people to sort it at the source. I visited three Italian cities whose citizens are successfully sorting 80-90% of their food waste
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CCAC: Reduce your food waste together with cities like Buenos Aires
Do you want to tackle food waste as a city but don’t know where to start? The Climate & Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) offers cities around the world a platform to learn from other cities’ experiences.
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Haven’s: A Zero Waste Kitchen in New York
Restaurants and cafes are known to be massive generators of food waste. It’s just part and parcel of running a food service business, right? But it doesn’t have to be, as Chef David from Haven’s Kitchen explained during a live cooking demonstration at the ISWA World Congress in Baltimore.
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Malmo: Communication at the Heart of Food Waste Recycling
Malmö is a Swedish city with an impressive food waste recycling program underpinned by an award-winning communications campaign.
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C40 helping cities tackle climate change with food waste management
Cities are where the future happens first. C40 is focused on tackling climate change, and a key strategy is supporting cities to reduce their food waste.
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The Big Apple Takes on Food Waste
New York City is tackling organic waste to reduce their impact on climate change. Curbside organic waste collection started as a pilot in 2012 and is now rolled out to 3.3 million city residents.
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Food waste reduction and recycling: a solution to the World’s phosphorus crisis
Cities are an important player to solve the World’s phosphorus crisis. They should become an urban mine from waste water and food waste, and make the chain of phosphorus circular.
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Milan Achieves World-class Separate Food Waste Collection
Milan is a densely populated city home to 1.3 million inhabitants with a high performing household food waste collection program that collects about 1.3 kg of food waste per person per week, which is well above levels of recycling in most cities around the World.
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