2025 Maine Wasted Food Solutions Summit
Friday, April 18, 2025
10am – 12pm
Zoom registration
Click here to register for the Maine Wasted Food Solutions Summit and receive Zoom connection information. Please register by April 8, 2025.
About the Summit
The Maine Wasted Food Solutions Summit is Maine’s statewide event focused on ending wasted food and food loss in our state through solutions that benefit everyone. The Summit brings together our state’s key food system participants: farms, businesses, feeding partners, community leaders, and nonprofit organizations – to discuss best and highest uses for our valuable Maine food resources at every stage… “Maine Food: Too Good To Waste.”
This year, we will specifically highlight the bottom-line economic benefits that Maine municipalities, schools, businesses, and households are achieving by simply remembering that food is always a valuable resource packed with energy and nutrients. It is never waste!
Attendees are encouraged to bring questions and ideas, as each session will feature Q&A time – and our always lively online group chat will be moderated by our Mitchell Center team to encourage sharing between speakers and participants.
2025 Summit Overview:
- Keynotes: National and Local Wasted Food Solution Progress
- Maine Food Resource Management: An Economic Opportunity
- Maine “Success Stories”
- UMaine at Work: Maine Wasted Food Solution Research
Join us and invite others for this statewide Summit to learn why and how to end wasted food and food loss – and build a stronger Maine – through proven food resource management solutions.
Food waste data is grim: 40% of food produced is never eaten, yet 1 in 8 Maine households suffer from food insecurity. Food is the single largest component of Maine’s solid waste system at 30%. And 97% of that waste ends up in landfills where it releases contaminants and produces methane gas—threatening our water and climate. Food waste also squanders valuable resources like energy, labor, soil, and nearly 25% of U.S. freshwater supplies which are used to produce food that is never eaten.
To contact us:
- Email: foodrescuemaine@maine.edu
- Phone: 207-581-3196