Food Waste Solutions for Food Businesses

Food waste is an inefficiency for food businesses, and inefficiencies are bottom-line costs. Cutting waste requires operational changes, but while many businesses are eager to adopt food waste reduction solutions—and have even made public sustainability commitments declaring waste reduction targets—solutions implementation can be costly and complex. Yet the benefits are real, including a proven return on investment.

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That’s why ReFED offers a suite of resources to support businesses in their sustainability journeys. We’re helping businesses move from making commitments to taking action, from tracking progress in a vacuum to understanding how they measure up to their industry peers, and from operating on a hunch to identifying where their efforts will have the greatest impact.

Our Business Initiatives team features sustainability and supply chain experts who provide custom analytics, capacity-building, and strategic advisory services uniquely tailored to your work—helping your business achieve a range of food waste reduction goals.

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Learn more about how our Business Services team can help your business overcome food waste-related challenges by contacting:

David Ly

Senior Manager, Business Initiatives

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The Roots of the Pact: Pacific Coast Food Waste Commitment

From 2019 through 2025, ReFED served as a founding resource partner for the Pacific Coast Food Waste Commitment (PCFWC), a public-private partnership between food businesses and jurisdictions on the West Coast of North America, all working together to reduce food waste in the region by 50% by 2030. In 2025, an analysis by ReFED found that grocery retailers who had signed on to the PCFWC reduced the volume of unsold food in their regional operations by 25% between 2019 and 2022—the largest decrease ever recorded. In addition, they increased the rate of unsold food going to compost by 28% and the rate of unsold food being donated by 20%—all of which led to a 30% decrease in associated greenhouse gas emissions. With the goal of scaling the success of the PCFWC to the national level, the U.S. Food Waste Pact supports businesses across the country in sharing food waste reduction data and testing and scaling solutions.

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The Roots of the Pact: Pacific Coast Food Waste Commitment

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Learn more about how joining businesses like Walmart, Starbucks, Sodexo, Chick-fil-A, and more as a signatory of the U.S. Food Waste Pact can jumpstart your food waste reduction goals by contacting:

Kristen Lee

Director of Business Initiatives

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