Commercial Food Waste Prevention Indiana Food Scrap Initiative

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1 Commercial Food Prevention Indiana Food Scrap Initiative Presenter: Dori Chandler, March 16th, 2016

2 Presentation Overview Opportunities Tools Measurement and Analytics Marketing, Education, Outreach Additional

3 Hunter-Gatherer Society

4 City Development

5 Commerce By Edward Dodwell - Edward Dodwell: Views in Greece, London 1821, p. 51 (scan), Public Domain

6 Cities of Today Public Domain

7 Food in Broad Ripple Dumpster Pictures by Dori Chandler Public Domain

8 Alternative Uses for Food! Public Domain

9 Food Used for Art Public Domain

10 Landfills in Indiana Public Domain

11 Losses Financial: $ Billion (1.3% of GDP) Resource: ~600,000 Tons/Year Social: 50 Million People

12 Food Recovery Hierarchy

13 Indiana Labor Market Conditions

14 Prevention Opportunities in the Supply Chain NRDC Report 2012/ Food and Ag Organ. 2011

15 Commercial Generators Largest commercial contribution by volume: Restaurants Supermarkets Food Service Institutions DSNY Data

16 ReFed Economics Analysis 2016 Report

17 Business Opportunities Restaurants and Food Operators Retail and Supermarkets Beyond the Store All Business

18 Large Scale Flexibility in Contract Ease Cosmetic Standards

19 City, State, Municipality Role Set Targets Grants and Incentives Standardize Labelling Procurement Policies

20 Lack of Data Inventory Control Technical Capacity Surveys Private/Municipal Supporting Infrastructure Challenges

21 Tools Assessment Tracking Systems - EPA Re-TRAC, LeanPath Marketing, Education, Outreach - Ugly Fruit Campaign

22 EPA Re-TRACK: Standardization

23 Tracking: LeanPath

24 Marketing, Education & Outreach

25 Sodexo Implemented Proprietary Tracking System Trained and Incentivized Employees Serving Pan Size Reduction Towards End of Meal Huge Cost Savings Food Savings of ⅓ 8 College Campuses Stop Wasting Food Campaign

26 Imperfect Produce Food Industry San Francisco Start-Up Pay Less for Ugly Fruit/Veg Social Media Founders of Food Recovery Network

27 Breweries Bell s Brewery Michigan, went from 50% to a 93% diversion. New Belgium Brewery Colorado, diverted 94.38% of its waste from landfills

28 Farmer s Markets Free/Reduced Price Box Healthy Food For All - Subsidized CSA share from farms with

29 Biocycle - Additional LeanPath - EPA Food Recovery - ReFED - Feeding the Copia - Enables businesses to receive a tax write-off and a reduction in disposal costs for providing meals to communities in need. The Archaeology of Garbage by William Rathje Food Reduction Alliance -

30 Summary Prevention Challenges are Environmental Impacts, Resource Distribution, Financial Loss Food Recovery Hierarchy Prevention Opportunities Exist in Tracking and Analytics, Smaller Plates, Standardized Data Labelling, Consumer Education Campaigns, Packaging Adjustments. Conducting Assessment, Followed by Continual Data Collection and Analysis Need support and Buy-in of Staff and Stakeholders

31 Questions & Comments? In the past thirty years, how has the size of the average chocolate chip cookie changed? A) Decreased in half B) Stayed the same C) Quadrupled in size D) Tripled in size