Dive Brief:

• Hormel Foods recently achieved its goal of cutting food waste by 20%, six years earlier than the company originally anticipated.
• According to the firm’s 2014 Hormel Foods Corporate Responsibility Report, in 2014 the company lowered the volume of waste it put in landfills by 1,500 tons.
• In addition to achieving other reductions, Hormel Foods lowered its energy use by 17,400 MMBtu, and reduced its water waste by 0.082 billion gallons.

Dive Insight:

Reducing waste is something consumers can do quickly, but when a major food producer aims to reduce waste, the results can be impressive.