A recent story from the Boston Globe, “In a first for the region, Hannaford says its grocery stores have achieved zero food waste,” recognizes Hannaford for a decade-long effort to eliminate all food waste. Agri-Cycle is proud to be a part of this effort, and to help make Hannaford “the first large-scale grocer in New England and New York to achieve zero food waste.”
“Once an item is determined unsellable, it’s triaged using the Environmental Protection Agency’s food-recovery guidelines on how to divert food waste. Edible food is sent to food banks, while other products are sent to farms as animal feed. Spoiled milk, meat scraps, and other items not suitable for consumption end up in bins that are collected by Agri-Cycle, a waste-collection company in Maine that has worked alongside Hannaford over the past decade to ramp up services.”
Read the whole story and see photos on the Boston Globe site: In a first for the region, Hannaford says its grocery stores have achieved zero food waste