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USDA Delivers on Ways to Prevent Food Waste

December 15, 2014 Elise Golan, Director of Sustainability Development, USDA

Less than 2 years ago, the USDA and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) launched the U.S. Food Waste Challenge, with the goal of reducing food waste in the United States. We set an ambitious goal of having at least 400 businesses, schools, and/or organizations join the challenge by...

Conservation

Supermarkets and Restaurants Are Fighting Food Waste & Saving Money

September 17, 2014 Jimmy Nguyen, USDA Food Waste Challenge Team

Thirty-one percent of food that is available at supermarkets, restaurants, and in households goes uneaten – food that was nurtured and harvested in the fields and ends up in a landfill. Increasingly food processing facilities, food service companies, supermarkets, and restaurants are recognizing the...

Food and Nutrition
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