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5 ways retailers can help reduce food waste
Rachel Cernansky Jul 24, 2015

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Compost—or produce energy
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Retailers can usually find a nearby farm or commercial compost operation to take their food waste as feedstock. If there's not one nearby, connect with other local retailers to explore the possibility of opening a new composting facility to serve the cluster—or consider the Wegmans example and run your own organic farm. Another option is to partner with the increasing number of wastewater facilities around the country that use anaerobic digestion to turn not only their own organic matter (yes, sewage) into electricity, but also take outside organic materials, which can include food scraps.

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