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From Community Composting to National Strategies: Blueprints for Food Loss and Waste Reduction at ReFED’s Food Waste Summit
With approximately 38% of food in our supply chain going to waste — costing roughly $218 billion each year — the need for food waste reduction is overwhelming from an equity, economic, and environmental perspective. While these numbers are shocking, it’s easy to get lost in the national statistics and fail to see the immense amount of community-driven change happening all around us. At ReFED's annual conference, the focus was sharing strategies on food waste reduction across local and federal levels and between public and private sectors.