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Crowe-Houston: Project Drawdown Ranked Food Waste Reduction as Top Climate Solution
“Project Drawdown last year said that food waste was the number one thing That we could do to combat global climate change.”
The US wastes 80 billion pounds of food annually, says Crowe-Houston
“It's true. And that equates to about eighty billion pounds of food.”
Goodr rescued $30K of food during an Atlanta Walmart power outage
“A Walmart in Atlanta, the power went out, and I mean, went out for less than 20 minutes, right? And because of that, they were throwing away everything in their freezers and everything in their coolers, and so she calls us, and she was like, hey, I don't know …”
Goodr chose a for-profit model because businesses already pay for disposal
“The reason why I decided to go a for-profit, right, as soon as I realized that it was definitely this logistics problem was that businesses were already paying to throw the food away.”
Goodr can achieve profitability solely on its core surplus food fees
“Yeah, we can 100% make it happen on our surplus food, on our waste stream business.”
Cutting US food waste by 15 percent could feed 25 million Americans
“If I can reduce food waste by 15%, that would be enough food to feed about twenty-five million Americans.”
Food is the single largest source of material in landfills
“And just to give you some aspects, food is the single largest source of everything that's in a landfill.”
Early prospects rejected Goodr for being a for-profit business
“And for the first year of the business, Every company that I spoke to was like, oh, we can't work with you because you're not a non-profit.”
Goodr Clients Typically See 4x to 10x ROI via Donated Food Value
“We typically see a four to 10 X ROI. So if they're paying us a thousand dollars a month, they are typically donating 4000 dollars worth of food on a monthly basis.”
Goodr received only one bad food report in five years
“And luckily in five years, we've only ever had one nonprofit that said, hey, we got some food that just doesn't look good.”
CA, NY, and NJ are making it illegal to discard food
“There are states like California, New York, and New Jersey That are introducing legislation that makes it illegal for businesses to throw away their food. They have to recycle it or donate it.”
Goodr is rolling out nationally across Magic Johnson's Sodexo joint venture
“We have a great partnership in place with Magic Johnson's joint venture with Sodexo. And so rolling out across all their locations.”