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Planning and Implementing

Creative and Productive
Solutions for Food Waste

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At Future Pointe, we are enthusiastic about

helping our customers and partners with value
recovery from food waste. We advise and
help design the optimal solutions that align with
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waste-to-energy, and composting.
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The Facts of Food Waste:
40%
of ALL food
grown, harvested,
& distributed
An estimated 40% of all food grown,
harvested, and distributed in the United
States ends up in landfills, where it generates
methane, which in turn becomes a
greenhouse gas, a pollutant which can be
converted into energy.
At the same time, 1 in 6 Americans are
considered food insecure, which means
lacking reliable access to sufficient
affordable, nutritious food.
Americans are
considered
food insecure
An estimated 140 million gallons of fossil fuel
are burned just to transport unconsumed
food to landfills annually, thus increasing
greenhouse gases by way of Carbon
Dioxide (CO2).
Food waste
consumes
30%
freshwater supply
& 4%
national energy budget
Waste and loss in our food system is a crisis
with extremely serious public health, social,
environmental, and economic implications.
So how can you convert your
waste liability into an asset?
Imagine this actual example:
The food bank in a community of 50,000
distributes 2 million pounds of food every year
to struggling local families. Like most food
banks they deal in damaged or perishable
food and waste 4% of overall inventory.
This food bank previously sent 80,000 pounds of
food waste to its regional landfill every year,
costing the organization $2,500. With help from
a local foundation, the organization hired
Future Pointe to plan and implement a Waste
Triage program. They now convert all their food
waste into sellable compost, livestock feed and
recyclable commodity.
Future Pointe can help you decide if Waste-to-
Energy is right for you, and at what scale.
Future Pointe is a Colorado-based company
with extensive, hands-on expertise advising
and developing creative and productive
solutions for food waste. The company's
team of consultants and technical advisers
has national reach and diverse industry
involvement.
Future Pointe services include project
development and management, education
and consulting, and technology guidance
for community-scale solutions which convert
unavoidable segments of wasted food into
value, including soil amendment and bio-
gas.
Future Pointe works with municipalities,
restaurants, universities, K-12 schools and
districts, food banks, agricultural businesses,
waste entrepreneurs and nonprofits.