Food Should be Eaten, Not Wasted

Working across the board

Whether it’s during the ordering, storage, preparation, or serving process, we are working together with our teams, clients and suppliers to reduce food and collateral waste across Sodexo sites. In education institutions, we are conscious of students’ growing aspirations for sustainable living, and their appreciation for Sodexo’s environmental consciousness and expertise in nutrition.

WasteWatch

For Sodexo, the fight against food waste is part of our daily routine. By using the WasteWatch program, Sodexo teams are able to easily capture food waste data and take action to drive cultural and behavioral change, whether it's food waste generated in the kitchen or consumer food waste. In the regional, we have implemented WasteWatch in education institutes from pre-schools to universities where we proactively educate students and faculty on mindful food consumption. WasteWatch will be deployed across 3,000 client sites worldwide by 2020 and will reach all sites by 2025.

Training and development

We are training our teams to be sustainably minded and have developed training and personal development programs to empower employees, customers and clients to waste less by celebrating the benefits of conserving food, water, energy, paper and raw material.

Packaging and recycling

We’ve introduced innovative packaging and recycling solutions, such as re-useable materials, bioplastics, and organic material, to help eliminate plastic waste from ending up in landfills. On all sites in Singapore, we have also removed the use of single-use plastic straws. In fact, Sodexo is reducing single-use plastics all over the world including North America, the UK, France, Australia, the Philippines and Malaysia.

Engaging the community

As part of our commitment to the communities where we do business, Sodexo works regularly alongside the STOP Hunger initiative to fight hunger and malnutrition. Since 1996, teams have been focused on this effort, working to change the fact that nearly one billion people suffer from hunger and malnutrition every day.