Dive Brief:

• The Food Waste Reduction Alliance (FWRA) has released The Best Practices and Emerging Solutions Toolkit, which outlines ways businesses can reduce food waste.
• Triple Pundit reports that ways to eliminate food waste, as outlined in the guide, include reducing the amount of food wasted in the first place, donating leftover food, using it as livestock feed or energy production, and landfilling, incinerating or composting waste. 
• As reported by Triple Pundit, the waste sector is a major force in reducing food waste. Processes used in energy production play a vital role in the elimination of food wastes and include making biodiesel from animal fats and oil, ethanol from fermented waste and methane derived from anaerobic digestion.

Dive Insight:

The guide also provides practical solutions to issues facing companies who are looking to reduce organic waste, such as how to navigate through red tape when donating food. The documents also provide outlines for technology used to address food waste, like the waste-to-methane processor, Grind2Energy and the Sacramento BioDigester, which gives food institutions the capabilities to create fuel, energy and compost from organics.