Preventing food waste
Food service businesses can take simple but effective steps to reduce food waste and improve the bottom line.
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Food service businesses can take simple but effective steps to reduce food waste and improve the bottom line.
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Join the many area grocers, restaurants, caterers and food service companies that are helping people who experience hunger.
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Help keep food scraps out of garbage, protect the environment, and put food scraps to better use creating compost and energy.
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How can we keep more food out of the waste stream, achieve greater environmental and economic benefit from food scraps, and make sure we have the right facilities available to handle them?
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Start with your local government program. If your business isn't covered by one these jurisdictions, ask Metro for help.
Food Waste Stops With Me launched in April 2018 as a partnership between Metro, the Oregon Restaurant & Lodging Association, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, and city and county governments to provide information, resources and technical assistance to food service businesses to help reduce food waste.
Metro, the Oregon Restaurant & Lodging Association, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality and several local governments have teamed up to help businesses throw away less food. The initiative, called Food Waste Stops With Me, is part of a larger effort around food waste that may also include requiring some businesses to keep the food they toss out of the garbage.
In December, the Metro Council will vote on whether to adopt a policy that will require some businesses that process, cook or sell food to keep food scraps out of their trash. Public comment on this proposed mandate begins today.
The Metro Council is looking at ways to get more food out of the garbage. From how much goes to the landfill to how much gets collected, here’s a look at some key numbers related to food that gets tossed – and collected – in the Portland metropolitan area.
One in five Oregonians lacks reliable access to nutritious food. At the same time, food, much of which could still be consumed, accounts for nearly a fifth of all garbage in the greater Portland region.
Wasted food wastes resources – and your hard-earned cash. Use these tips to toss less food.