Dive Brief:

• The National Restaurant Association (NRA) has released a sustainability report highlighting how the industry can reduce food waste and increase sustainability.
• The association is creating the Food Waste Reduction Alliance to work on reducing the volume of organic waste material entering landfills through composting, transforming food into energy and recycling oil into biofuel.
• The NRA is working on educating and training those in the food industry to implement sustainability into their businesses.

Dive Insight:

The report references a collaborative study it conducted with Duke University which provides insight into ways restaurants can move towards achieving "zero-waste" status. It noted that in the U.S. alone, 60 million tons of food waste was created in 2010, with 40 million tons ending up in landfills.