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Food Waste Reduction Whitepaper

According to the data, we estimate that K-12 students in Iowa tossed over 150,000 pounds of food and beverage waste every school day during breakfast and lunch in the 2018-2019 school year. Moreover, Iowa’s K-12 students tossed nearly 30 million pounds of food and beverage waste in 2018-2019 (based on 180 day school year) with the majority of this ending up in the landfill.

We have released a new whitepaper detailing food waste at K-12 schools in rural Iowa.

The whitepaper analyzes data we've collected over the last five years of providing direct assistance to K-12 schools across the state in the fight against food waste.

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