Reducing waste and achieving a zero-landfill goal are admirable goals for any corporate sustainability project. Going further by reducing food waste and redirecting the excess to feed the hungry is a truly extraordinary achievement. Our work on such a project with Feeding America®—the nation's leading domestic hunger-relief charity—shows how partnerships between public and private organizations can help solve complex and challenging community issues.
"Economy of food is patriotism," according to a World War I-era U.S. government poster. "Waste of food is disloyalty," it adds, because foods—especially wheat, meat, sugar and fats—were needed by American soldiers and the citizens of war-torn Allied countries.1 In the subsequent 85 years, American attitudes changed considerably. Encouraged by plentiful harvests, rising incomes and advancing technologies, consumers and the food industry alike became less concerned
about waste.
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