Articles Tagged with ''waste management''

About 94% of Americans admit to throwing food away at home, according to a new national survey by the American Dairy Association Mideast, Columbus, Ohio.

Smithfield Foods, Inc., Smithfield, Va., announced a key step toward achieving zero-waste-to-landfill status across its North Carolina processing facilities.

A.P. Moller Maersk, Denmark, invested in Spoiler Alert, a Boston, Mass.-based provider of software solutions and value-added services geared toward helping food businesses manage unsold inventory, as part of a strategic round of financing.

RNG Energy Solutions, Philadelphia, Pa., and Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refining and Marketing LLC (PES), Philadelphia, announced plans to build a state-of-the-art anaerobic digester facility named Point Breeze Renewable Energy (PBRE).

The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), Canada, released a comprehensive report on the state of food loss and waste in Canada, Mexico and the United States, developed through the CEC’s North American Initiative on Food Waste Reduction and Recovery.

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ReFED, a multi-stakeholder, non-profit committed to reducing food waste, launched the Retail Food Waste Action Guide, which finds that food waste represents an $18.2 billion opportunity for grocery retailers.