Reducing Food Waste
In 2015, the Council identified food waste reduction as a key long-term strategy and established a workgroup to explore opportunities to address the issue in Halton Region through various initiatives.
On May 30, 2017, the Council hosted the Policies, Partnerships & Practices: Reducing Food Waste Symposium in partnership with Country Heritage Park, the Ontario Food Collaborative and Sustain Ontario; supported by the Ontario Produce Marketing Association, The Printing House, Riverstone Branding, and funded by the Ontario Trillium Foundation. A recap of the symposium has been prepared in this Report.
We would like to thank all of the presenters:
Dr. Martin Gooch, VCMI – Food Waste in Canada: Challenges and Opportunities
Cher Mereweather, Provision Coalition – Canadian Food Loss + Waste: Focused on Solutions
Denise Philippe, National Zero Waste Council – National Food Waste Reduction Strategy
Alison Schatz, Joanne Gauci, Metro Vancouver Love Food Hate Waste Campaign – Love Food Hate Waste: From a Regional Campaign to a National Campaign
Julie Hordowick, Ontario Food Collaborative and York Region Good Food Programme – York Region Food Waste Reduction Strategy
Mike von Massow, Guelph Food Waste Research Project – Food Waste: What we’re wasting, why we’re wasting it, and what we can do about it
Michelle Coyne, Food Systems Lab – Connecting the Loop: A Food Systems Approach to Addressing Food Waste
Doug Alexander, Ippolito Group – Innovative Food Waste Reduction Practices
In February 2017, the Council launched its first food waste education tool kit for Grades 4-6. The kit is designed to engage primary school students to better understand the importance and impact of food waste, with the goal of inspiring them to reduce food waste both at school and at home.
The tool kit is part of a set of resources funded by the Burlington Foundation and developed in partnership with Feeding Halton, Food for Life, Halton Food Council and the Halton Poverty Roundtable. The tool kit and other food waste resources are available at our joint website, Reducing Waste to End Hunger.
In 2015, the Halton Food Council (HFC) served as the Community Project Champion for two groups in the McMaster University S3603 Course interested in food waste research.
Student attitudes to food waste – presentation
Halton consumer food waste advocacy team – presentation