Christy Cook Sodexo Food Waste

Christy Cook is senior manager of sustainability field support for Sodexo North America’s office of sustainability and corporate social responsibility. She leads all sustainability-training initiatives and is responsible for sustainability and social responsibility practices throughout Sodexo’s 9,000 partnerships in North America.
In this presentation, Christy talks about how Sodexo uses the food recovery hierarchy to reduce, recover, and recycle food waste in their cafeterias all around the country. Sodexo operates food service in many sectors including K-12 schools, universities, hospitals, government agencies, private corporations, military bases, and correctional facilities.

Additional information:
31% of food that is available at supermarkets, restaurants, dining halls, and in households goes uneaten. Across the country, supermarkets, restaurants, and food service companies are adopting innovative new approaches to reduce the amount of food that goes unsold, recover more wholesome unsold food to donate to people who need it, and recycle food discards for energy generation or composting. Stores are even coming up with new incentives to convince consumers to buy "ugly" produce.
The second webinar in the U.S. Food Waste Challenge Webinar series features food industry and non-profit leaders talking about how they are dealing with food waste.  The presentations include information on the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act, liability protection for food donation, the food recovery hierarchy, and innovative ways to keep retailer food waste out of landfills.