2025 – Macalester College recovers and redistributes large quantities of food through events such as homecoming, commencement and at the end-of-semester.
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2025 – Spelman College builds food waste infrastructure through back of house composting resulting in 100% compost acceptance and over 33,000 lbs. diverted from landfill.
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2024 – Kent State University expands food waste diverted to anaerobic digestion facilities, reducing waste to landfills: 25 tons in 8 weeks; 137 tons in one year.
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2024 – Towson coordinates with the Maryland Department of the Environment to integrate food waste reduction strategies into the annual state Food Summit.
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2024 – UC Irvine’s Move Out Donation Drive reduces food waste through excess food collection and donation.
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2024 – UC Irvine facilitates a robust dining hall event that accounted for both the average post-consumer food waste and total back of house kitchen diversion metrics.
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2024 – University of Pittsburgh’s Food Security Lockers, innovatively recovering surplus food from campus dining and distributing it to food insecure students.
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2024 – UT Knoxville is reducing food waste on campus and ending hunger by repurposing the recovered food into microwavable meals.
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2023 – Cal Poly Humboldt’s Weigh the Waste is an educational program with a goal to achieve food waste reductions in dining halls.
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2023 – Central Sustainability partnered with CMU Dining to offer food waste education in dining halls by weighing food left on students’ plates.
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