{"id":33936,"date":"2025-03-06T14:57:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T19:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?page_id=33936"},"modified":"2025-04-29T16:08:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T20:08:58","slug":"2025-maine-wasted-food-solutions-summit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/2025-maine-wasted-food-solutions-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Maine Wasted Food Solutions Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2024\/09\/Food-scraps_sm.jpg\" alt=\"Food scraps being scraped into composting bucket\" class=\"wp-image-32224\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.7777777777777777;object-fit:cover;width:512px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2024\/09\/Food-scraps_sm.jpg 600w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2024\/09\/Food-scraps_sm-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2024\/09\/Food-scraps_sm-105x70.jpg 105w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2024\/09\/Food-scraps_sm-317x211.jpg 317w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2024\/09\/Food-scraps_sm-423x282.jpg 423w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Friday, April 18, 2025<br>10am \u2013 12pm<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Post Summit Sharing<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Summit Recording <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/lo6Pfib0FKA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A recording of the Summit is available<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">PowerPoint Presentations<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/resource\/2025-summit-presentation-jeff-constantino\/\">Jeff Constantino, ReFED<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/resource\/2025-summit-presentation-megan-mansfield-pryor-and-faith-lee\/\">Megan Mansfield Pryor, Governor&#8217;s Office of Policy Innovation &amp; the Future; Faith Lee, Resource Recycling Systems<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/resource\/2025-summit-presentation-brett-heidtke\/\">Brett Heidtke, Bristol Seafood<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/resource\/2025-summit-presentation-penny-jordan-and-doug-clopp\/\">Penny Jordon, Maine Farmers for Food Equity; Doug Clopp, Maine Farm and Sea Cooperative<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/resource\/2025-summit-presentation-don-morrison\/\">Don Morrison, Wayside Food Programs<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/resource\/2025-summit-presentation-allison-leavitt\/\">Allison Leavitt, Lisbon School District<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/resource\/2025-summit-presentation-eric-dyer\/\">Eric Dyer, Readfield Transfer Station<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/resource\/2025-summit-presentation-food-rescue-maine-students\/\">Food Rescue MAINE Student Presentations: Louis Rivet-Prefontaine, Megan Saudberlich, Kathryn Busko, William Brenneman<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Zoom Chat<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/resource\/2025-food-waste-summit-chat-summary\/\">Summary of Summit Zoom Chat<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">91福利 the Summit<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>Maine Wasted Food Solutions Summit<\/strong> is Maine\u2019s statewide event focused on ending wasted food and food loss in our state through solutions that benefit everyone. The Summit brings together our state\u2019s key food system participants: farms, businesses, feeding partners, community leaders, and nonprofit organizations \u2013 to discuss best and highest uses for our valuable Maine food resources at every stage\u2026 \u201cMaine Food: Too Good To Waste.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year, we will specifically highlight the bottom-line economic benefits that Maine municipalities, schools, businesses, and households are achieving by simply remembering that food is always a valuable resource packed with energy and nutrients. It is never waste! &nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Participants are encouraged to bring questions and ideas to the summit. Q&amp;A time will follow each presentation allowing attendees to gain further insights. The online group chat will also be open to encourage additional sharing and networking between participants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2025 Summit Agenda<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">10:00AM &#8211; 10:40AM<br>I. Welcome and Keynotes<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Welcome<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>David Hart<\/strong>, Director, Sen. George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Acknowledgements<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Susanne Lee<\/strong>, Faculty Fellow, Sen. George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions; <br>Team Leader, Food Rescue MAINE<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Keynotes<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/congresswoman-chellie-pingree\/\">Wasted Food &amp; Food Loss &#8211; Stop the Waste<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/strong><br><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/congresswoman-chellie-pingree\/\">Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, Maine First District Representative<\/a><\/strong><br>See how the waste of perfectly good and edible food is a problem affecting everyone especially with rising food prices. Learn about Congresswoman Pingree\u2019s initiatives to stop the waste \u2013 and how her work will help your food budget.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><strong><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/jeff-costantino-refed\/\">Wasted Food and Food Loss Solutions &#8211; The Economic Benefits<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/jeff-costantino-refed\/\">Jeff Constantino, ReFED<\/a><\/strong><br>Discover the proven financial benefits of taking action to reduce wasted food and food loss. Check out the latest proven business and household education resources to help you take action.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><strong><em><strong>Maine Food Loss &amp; Waste Generation Study 2024 \u2013 Gather the Data<\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/strong><br><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/megan-mansfield-pryor-gopif\/\">Megan Mansfield Pryor, Governor\u2019s Office of Policy Innovation and the Future<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/faith-lee-rrs\/\">Faith Lee, Resource Recycling Systems<\/a><\/strong><br>Explore the highlights from the first Maine Food Loss and Waste Generation Study showing what, where, and how, food loss and waste is happening in Maine. Learn how to use the data to put food to its best and highest uses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">10:40AM &#8211; 11:25AM<br>II. Maine Success Stories &#8211; Proven Solutions<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Be inspired by Maine\u2019s own businesses, schools, communities and organizations who are working to end food loss and waste and reaping the many financial benefits!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/brett-heidtke-bristol-seafood\/\">Brett Heidtke<em>, Bristol Seafood<\/em><\/a> <\/strong><br>Turning fish scrap \u201cwaste\u201d streams into new product revenue streams<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/penny-jordan-maine-farmers-for-food-equity\/\">Penny Jordan,<em> Maine Farmers for Food Equity<\/em><\/a> <\/strong>and <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/douglas-clopp-drc-consulting\/\">Doug Clopp, Maine Farm &amp; Sea Cooperative<\/a><\/em><\/strong><br>Using local farm surplus to develop value-added products that pay farms and food processors &#8211; and feed New Mainers<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/don-morrison-wayside-food-programs\/\">Don Morrison, <em>Wayside Food Programs<\/em><\/a> <\/strong><br>Recovering truckloads of donated, good, edible surplus food to offset spending in Maine\u2019s charitable food system<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/allison-leavitt-lisbon-school-department\/\">Allison Leavitt, <em>Lisbon School District<\/em> <\/a><\/strong><br>&#8220;Feeding bodies, not landfills\u201d with good, nutritious foods which saves money on food and trash disposal costs<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/eric-dyer-town-of-readfield\/\">Eric Dyer, <em>Readfield Transfer Station <\/em><\/a><\/strong><br>Operating a multi-community composting program offering lower-cost food scrap recycling for local communities and schools<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">11:25AM &#8211; 11:55AM<br>III.<strong> Food Rescue MAINE and Partners at Work &#8211; More Solutions<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Discover how the Mitchell Center\u2019s Food Rescue MAINE team brings together faculty and students to collaborate with partners across the state to develop solutions to Maine\u2019s food waste challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><em><em>Maine Surplus Food and the Charitable Food System<\/em><\/em> <\/strong><br>Louis Rivet-Prefontaine, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, 91福利<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><em>Maine Municipal Waste Programs: An Economic Analysis<\/em><\/strong><br>Megan Sauberlich, Undergraduate student, Economics, 91福利<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><em>Maine Consumer Education<\/em> <\/strong><br>Kathryn Busko, Undergraduate student, Ecology &amp; Environmental Sciences and Journalism, 91福利<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><em>Maine School Cafeteria Wasted Food Reduction Study<\/em> <\/strong><br>William Brenneman, Graduate student, Anthropology &amp; Environmental Policy, 91福利<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Join us and invite others for this statewide Summit to learn why and how to end wasted food and food loss &#8211; and build a stronger Maine &#8211; through proven food resource management solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><em>Food waste data is grim: 40% of food produced is never eaten, yet 1 in 8 Maine households suffer from food insecurity. Food is the single largest component of Maine\u2019s solid waste system at 30%. And 97% of that waste ends up in landfills where it releases contaminants and produces methane gas\u2014threatening our water and climate. Food waste also squanders valuable resources like energy, labor, soil, and nearly 25% of U.S. freshwater supplies which are used to produce food that is never eaten<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/foodrescuemaine\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2022\/02\/013c4d9a-1365-37dd-87a4-5b5401df5d46.png\" alt=\"Logo for Food Rescue MAINE\" class=\"wp-image-25621\" style=\"width:404px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2022\/02\/013c4d9a-1365-37dd-87a4-5b5401df5d46.png 800w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2022\/02\/013c4d9a-1365-37dd-87a4-5b5401df5d46-300x105.png 300w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2022\/02\/013c4d9a-1365-37dd-87a4-5b5401df5d46-768x270.png 768w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2022\/02\/013c4d9a-1365-37dd-87a4-5b5401df5d46-105x37.png 105w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2022\/02\/013c4d9a-1365-37dd-87a4-5b5401df5d46-317x111.png 317w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2022\/02\/013c4d9a-1365-37dd-87a4-5b5401df5d46-423x149.png 423w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2022\/02\/013c4d9a-1365-37dd-87a4-5b5401df5d46-634x223.png 634w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">To contact us:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Email: <a href=\"http:\/\/foodrescuemaine.maine.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">foodrescuemaine@maine.edu<\/a>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Phone: 207-581-3196<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, April 18, 202510am \u2013 12pm Post Summit Sharing Summit Recording PowerPoint Presentations Zoom Chat 91福利 the Summit The Maine Wasted Food Solutions Summit is Maine\u2019s statewide event focused on ending wasted food and food loss in our state through solutions that benefit everyone. 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