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ReFED is working across the food system to cut food loss and waste.
With our deep sector knowledge, convening power, and full view of the supply chain, we're advancing solutions that generate large-scale impact.
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Here's How You Can Take Action
Food waste is a systemwide problem, so solving it will require systemwide action. That’s why we operate with a “big tent” mindset. No matter how you’re connected to the food system, there’s a lot that you can do right now to bring about change—and we’re here to help.
Turn Commitments Into Action
As waste generators, businesses have a special responsibility to commit to progress and take action. Luckily, there’s a range of solutions—from breakthrough innovations to basic best practices—that can transform your operations. We can show you what works.
Learn how our Business Services program can help
Reach Your Investment Goals
Capital of all types is needed to scale food waste reduction solutions, and we’re here to help you make impactful investments. We offer a comprehensive data-driven assessment of financing opportunities, plus more resources and services to help you develop your strategy.
Learn where funding is needed the most
Join our Food Waste Funder Circle
Examine the food waste funding landscape with our Capital Tracker
Maximize Your Impact
We’re committed to helping you grow your impact through partnership opportunities, awareness building, pitch events, and a range of tools and resources—all designed to help get your solution in front of funders and prospective business partners.
Explore our solution provider resources
Help Incentivize Action
Policy has the power to spark action, and across the country, federal, state, and local policymakers have opportunities to jump-start necessary change. Our resources can educate you on what’s working, what’s needed—and the potential impact.
Spread the Word
Everyone is connected to the food system and faced with the impacts of food waste. That means there’s a range of potential angles when it comes to food waste stories. ReFED has reporters covered with the most recent data and statistics, expert sources, and more.
Find Your Place In This Fight
We all have a role to play in reducing food loss and waste, and the best way to determine yours is to start at the beginning—by learning about the causes and extent of food waste and which solutions can have the greatest impact.
Food Waste By The Numbers
38% of all food in the U.S. goes unsold or uneaten—and most of that ends up as waste.
As part of the TED Countdown Dilemma Series, ReFED President Dana Gunders spoke about food waste and its solutions.
That's equivalent to:
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149 Billion Meals That could have gone to the food insecure -
$495 Billion Approximately 1.8% of U.S. GDP -
88% of Annual Emissions From passenger vehicles in the U.S. -
24% of Landfill Volume Resulting in 59% of landfill methane
HOW REFED is transforming the food system
ReFED is a U.S.-based nonprofit that leverages a holistic view of the food system to collaborate with key audiences and drive coordinated action. Recognized as a leading voice for change, we accomplish our work by:
Leveraging Data & Insights
Tackling food waste requires a deep understanding of the problem, yet reliable information is scarce and fragmented. ReFED is a definitive source for data and economic analysis on food waste and the solutions to fight it, with a trusted history of producing insights and tools that support action.
Catalyzing Capital & Innovation
Food waste solutions offer environmental, social, and economic returns. ReFED is driving this impact by empowering innovators and shepherding the capital needed for scale, with a suite of best-in-class resources specifically designed for funders and solution providers.
Mobilizing Businesses
The businesses that grow, sell, and serve our food play a critical role in cutting waste—and in supporting the efforts of their customers to do the same. ReFED's Business Services team provides the know-how to guide businesses toward sustainable, high-impact solutions, turning ambitious goals into tangible results.
Cultivating Community
Food waste occurs up and down the supply chain, making cross-sector collaboration and coordination essential. ReFED connects stakeholders from across the food system through partnerships, affinity networks, events—including our annual Food Waste Solutions Summit—and more.
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Key Topics
From food waste’s impact on the climate to its role in driving food system inequality and more, here’s what people are talking about.
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Featured Resource
ReFED Insights Engine
The Insights Engine is an online hub for data and insights about food waste, featuring a detailed cost-benefit analysis of more than 40 solutions; facts and figures about the extent, causes, and impacts of food waste built from dozens of public and proprietary datasets; a directory of organizations ready to partner on food waste reduction initiatives—from waste prevention to food recovery and food waste recycling—and more. With more granular data, more extensive analyses, more customized views, and the most up-to-date information, the Insights Engine has been designed from the ground up to provide anyone interested in food waste reduction with the information they need to take meaningful action.
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See additional reports, fact sheets, action guides, and more in our Resources Library.
Donate to ReFED
Reducing food loss and waste is a core solution to fight climate change, and it can quickly decrease levels of atmospheric methane. It also helps increase food security and make the best use of the money being spent to grow, harvest, process, transport, store, and consume food. Your support of ReFED helps us create the system-level impact that’s needed to drive real change.