On January 22, 2020, EPA announced that Browns Superstores, Compass Group, Giant Eagle, Hello Fresh, Las Vegas Sands, and Wendy’s have agreed to participate in the joint EPA/USDA U.S. Food Loss and Waste 2030 Champions initiative by “… pledging to reduce food loss and waste in their own operations by 50 percent by the year 2030 …” – Other 2030 Champions are: Ahold Delhaize, Aramark, Blue Apron, Bon Appetit, Campbells, ConAgra, Farmstead, General Mills, Hilton, Kellogg’s, Kroger, Marley Spoon, MGM Resorts, Mom’s Organic Market, Pepsico, Sodexo, Sprouts, Unilever, Walmart, Wegmans, Weis, Whitsons and Yum! Brands …” – The EPA news release is here: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/trump-administration-recruits-six-new-members-us-food-loss-and-waste-2030-champions – Information about the 2030 Champion initiative is here: https://www.usda.gov/foodlossandwaste and www.epa.gov/sustainable-management-food – See also the EPA Food Recovery Challenge at https://www.epa.gov/sustainable-management-food/food-recovery-challenge-frc – State, local, tribal and territorial governments interested in making a commitment to food waste reduction can sign the Winning on Reducing Food Waste pledge – #FoodWaste
Animal Digestible Food Packaging Initiative
Our reason-for-being/goal/purpose/objective/intent is to convince/inspire/persuade/encourage the food processing industry to establish and fund a public private partnership for the discovery of new food packaging materials that would be digestible by animals (farm animals as well as ubiquitous microbes).
