Food Waste Reduction

University of California Irvine

2024 – UC Irvine’s Move Out Donation Drive reduces food waste through excess food collection and donation.

University of California Irvine

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.

University of Pittsburgh

2024 – University of Pittsburgh’s Food Security Lockers, innovatively recovering surplus food from campus dining and distributing it to food insecure students.

University of Tennessee Knoxville

2024 – UT Knoxville is reducing food waste on campus and ending hunger by repurposing the recovered food into microwavable meals.

Cal Poly Humboldt

2023 – Cal Poly Humboldt’s Weigh the Waste is an educational program with a goal to achieve food waste reductions in dining halls.

Central Michigan University

2023 – Central Sustainability partnered with CMU Dining to offer food waste education in dining halls by weighing food left on students’ plates.

Endicott College

2023 – Endicott’s Show the Waste focuses on food waste reduction by putting “wasteful plates” on display in the main dining hall through a meal period.

Salisbury University

2023 – Salisbury University brings awareness to post-consumer food waste generated at the Commons Dining Hall.

St. Lawrence University

2023 – St. Lawrence develops a toolkit to conduct audits and measure the impact of educational materials on attitudes and understanding of food waste impacts.

Temple University

2023 – Temple’s Share Fair, a large-scale high-visibility event, demonstrates the circularity of food on campus and in our urban community.