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 only statewide event focused on ending wasted food and food loss in our state. The Summit brings together our state’s key food system participants—farms, businesses, feeding partners, community leaders and more – to discuss proven win-win solutions for ending wasted food and food loss in Maine.
This year, with rising costs on everyone’s mind, we will share the economic benefits that smart Maine communities, schools, businesses, and households are achieving by managing their food resources – edible and inedible – for maximum value and never as waste!
Attendees are encouraged to bring your questions and ideas, as each session will feature Q&A time with our presenters. A lively online group chat will be moderated by our Mitchell Center team to encourage idea sharing between participants.
2025 Summit Overview:
- New! Maine Wasted Food & Food Loss Generation Study Data
- Maine Food Resource Management: Economic Benefits
- Maine Food Resource Management: “Success Stories”
- Our Students at Work: Maine Wasted Food Pilot Solutions
Please join us and invite others to learn why and how to stop wasting food in Maine.
Wasted food 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 food ends up in landfills where it releases contaminants and produces methane gas—threatening our water and climate. Wasted food 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
