Project Goals Methodology  The Southern Maine Women’s Reentry Center kitchen waste was measured from 10/4/2021 to 12/2/2021. Results  We worked with the Southern Maine women’s Reentry Center in Wyndham for two months to track kitchen waste for the approximately 100 meals served each day. We helped identify what parts of the kitchen were producing the most fixable waste […]

After finishing our pilot with the reentry facility in Windham, we partnered with the Department of Corrections (DOC) again to track food waste at the Maine State Prison and Bolduc Correctional Facility. Instead of one facility with 50 residents, we jumped to tracking and measuring food waste for two facilities with a total of around […]

We partnered with the Maine Department of Corrections to conduct a food waste tracking and measuring study at the Mountain View Correctional Facility in Charleston, Maine. This study completed out 2022/23 pilot with the four major MDOC facilities (including Maine State Prison, Bolduc, and the Women’s Reentry Center).   The Mountain View food waste study […]

The Maine Home Food Waste Challenge was a four-week online household food waste reduction “competition” which launched on January 9th, 2023. Maine residents and communities statewide were asked to track, measure, and reduce their weekly food waste in order to save money and help prevent climate change. Using social media, newspapers, TV, and community outreach, […]

We partnered with Northern Light Health to conduct a two-month-long study to track, measure, and reduce food waste at their Blue Hill Hospital Facility. We worked closely with the Food Service Director and her team to conduct this study. The food waste study began on 11/7/2022 and was completed on 1/10/2023. Goals To reduce food […]