Creating a Sustainable Future through Food Waste Reduction - 2022 Year-End Report for the

2 About the Pacific Coast Food Waste Commitment The PCC Food Waste Reduction Project began in June 2016 when the PCC entered into the Pacific North American Climate Leadership Agreement – committing to advance organic waste prevention and recovery initiatives to reduce carbon emissions from the region’s food waste stream – which spurred the creation of the PCC Food Waste Working Group, now known a. [...] waste reduction as a holistic strategy to combat Aggregated and anonymized, this information climate change, conserve natural resources, and is representative of retailers and other food transform the food system, and have generously businesses across the region and around the provided grant funding to the initiative as well. [...] The higher upstream cost and impact department remains the largest driver of unsold of food production highlight the need to keep food food from a volume perspective – 39.5% of unsold in the human food supply chain and to prioritize grocery food by weight and 22% of unsold food prevention solutions. [...] The working groups Sharing best practices and building upon the food saw an uplift in participants and provided the waste reduction successes of partners can inspire platform for the first-ever PCFWC case studies to and increase the potential for broader regional be developed and shared. [...] We are excited to continue iterations of the We are committed to promoting the key findings different ReFED Food Loss and Waste Calculators from the case studies to spread awareness of and reporting methodologies to streamline solutions and to engage more businesses in food the data collection process and unearth waste reduction efforts.