2026 – Auburn University focuses on raising awareness about post-consumer food waste in dining halls through a Weigh the Waste campaign.
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2026 – Carleton uses AI-powered food waste tracking to inform menu decisions and drive student engagement through real-time data visibility, sustainability metrics, and incentive-based participation.
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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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