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Household Food Waste: New Research on Why There's So Much

Past Event

January 17, 2024 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST

Location

Virtual

Join ReFED’s Dana Gunders as she sits down with Dr. Balca Alaybek and John Aitken at MITRE to discuss their recent report about consumer food waste in the U.S.

Details

Nearly half of all uneaten food happens at the household level, and understanding the reasons why it happens is a critical first step to addressing it. A new report from MITRE helps to do that. In partnership with Gallup, MITRE surveyed more than 9,000 respondents to measure knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors surrounding food waste in American households, plus they deployed an app for respondents to track their household waste. What did they learn? Join ReFED’s Dana Gunders as she sits down with Dr. Balca Alaybek and John Aitken from MITRE to discuss their findings.

Panelists

  • Dana Gunders

    Executive Director

  • Dr. Balca Alaybek

    Lead Organizational Psychologist

  • John Aitken

    Senior Social Scientist

Organizations

  • MITRE

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Dana Gunders

Dana Gunders

Executive Director – ReFED

Dana Gunders serves as ReFED’s Executive Director. Dana is a national expert on food waste and one of the first to bring to light just how much food is lost throughout the food system. For almost a decade, she was a Senior Scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council; she then launched Next Course, LLC to strategically advise on food waste. Some of her career highlights include authoring the landmark Wasted report and Waste-Free Kitchen Handbook, launching the "Save the Food" campaign with the Ad Council, testifying in Congress, consulting to Google, being named "the woman who started the waste-free movement" by Consumer Reports, ​​​​and serving as a founding Board Member of ReFED.
Dr. Balca Alaybek

Dr. Balca Alaybek

Lead Organizational Psychologist – MITRE

John Aitken

John Aitken

Senior Social Scientist – MITRE

MITRE

MITRE

MITRE is a not-for-profit corporation committed to the public interest, operating federally funded R&D centers on behalf of U.S. government sponsors.

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