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Measuring Food Waste: New Estimates, New Insights, New Opportunities

Past Event

April 21, 2023 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

Location

Virtual

Join EPA’s Claudia Fabiano to join ReFED's Dana Gunders for a special fireside chat – the day before Earth Day! – to talk through new food waste data and how they can be used to support food waste reduction initiatives across the country. 

Details

Food waste isn’t just one problem. It’s a lot of individual problems scattered across the supply chain, which makes measuring it notoriously difficult. And yet measurement is critical for any food waste reduction initiative – for knowing where to focus your efforts to determining what the impact is. This April, as ReFED updates the Insights Engine with new data and EPA releases its own new waste estimates, we’ve invited EPA’s Claudia Fabiano to join Dana Gunders for a special fireside chat – the day before Earth Day! – to talk through the numbers, what they can reveal about progress being made, and how they can be used to support food waste reduction initiatives across the country. After the discussion, stay for a Q&A where you can get your questions answered.

Panelists

  • Dana Gunders

    Executive Director

  • Claudia Fabiano

    Sustainable Management of Food Team

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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.
Claudia Fabiano

Claudia Fabiano

Sustainable Management of Food Team – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Claudia Fabiano joined the Environmental Protection Agency in 2002 and has been working on the Sustainable Management of Food team in EPA’s Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery since 2016. In addition to her role at EPA to reduce wasted food in the U.S., she is on the board of Washington DC's Food Recovery Working Group. She has B.S. in Environmental Studies from The George Washington University. When she’s not chasing after her two daughters, she’s coming up with creative solutions for how to cook what's left in the fridge.

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