Food Rescue MAINE

Project Goals To determine what foods were creating the most kitchen and plate waste in their facility. To reduce the money they were spending both on purchasing food and disposing of food that is not eaten, by developing a better knowledge of their waste. To develop strategies in the kitchen and with the residents in […]

After finishing our pilot with the reentry facility in Windham, we patterned with the 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 two tracking and measuring food waste for two facilities with a total of around 830 residents. […]

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 […]