Sodexo, Southern Connecticut State University, and Adam Equipment Partner to Reduce Dining Hall Waste
November 08 2022 - 8:51AM
Sodexo, a leader in quality, multichannel, and flexible food
experiences, in partnership with Southern Connecticut State
University’s Office of Sustainability and scale manufacturer Adam
Equipment, announced today the Weigh the Waste event in honor of
Sodexo’s WasteLESS week. The event, which took place on October 24
– 28, encouraged students on SCSU’s campus to monitor and minimize
their carbon footprint in the dining hall. “We’re proud to work
alongside our partners in the local community to support Sodexo’s
WasteLESS week,” said Tony DeLuca, general manager, Sodexo. “Even
now, post event and WasteLESS week, it’s critical that we continue
to support and encourage minimizing food waste in any and all ways
that we can.” During the one-week event, students scraped their
unwanted food remains into a large container in the dining hall
which sat atop Adam Equipment’s GFK 330a, a floor checkweighing
scale. GFK features a large 15.7” by 19.7” stainless steel
platform, allowing Sodexo foodservice workers to place a container
on the platform for convenient weighing of up to 330 lbs. of food.
The scale remained on during the entire event, allowing students to
see in real-time the increase in weight with each plate.
By the end of the week, the dining hall collected more than
1,700 lbs of food waste, which will be composted. “I think
WasteLESS week was very beneficial for us students because we were
able to see how much food really goes to waste,” noted Hailey
Ortiz, first-year student at Southern. “This teaches us to be more
mindful and reduce the amount of food that would go to waste so
that there is less harm to the environment and less food insecurity
for others.” “Food waste is a serious problem worldwide and Adam is
happy to play a role in helping to reduce it and spread awareness
at the local level,” said Brian Thomas, Adam Equipment’s marketing
manager.
Prior to the Weigh the Waste event, Sodexo at SCSU had
previously worked with Adam Equipment’s weighing equipment. Through
Sodexo’s partnership with Leanpath, Adam’s CPWplus platform scale
is used to weigh leftover food on the line that is then distributed
to the community through the Food Recovery Network. During the 2021
– 2022 academic year, Sodexo and Southern’s Office of
Sustainability saved over 8,456 lbs of food from the landfill and
donated it to local non-profits.Sodexo North America is focused on
preventing all forms of waste through changes in processes,
consumer education, and collaboration with external partners.
Sodexo aims to follow the principles of the circular economy to
ensure all waste has a beneficial use and by promoting reuse,
recycling, and composting to eliminate avoidable waste going to
landfills. About Sodexo North America
Sodexo North America is part of a global, Fortune 500 company
with a presence in 55 countries. Sodexo provides quality,
multichannel and flexible food experiences, but also designs
attractive and inclusive workplaces and shared spaces, manages and
maintains infrastructure in a safe and environmentally friendly
way, offers personalized support for patients or students and even
creates programs fostering employee engagement. The company employs
90,066 people at thousands of sites in all 50 U.S. states, Canada,
Puerto Rico and Guam, and indirectly supports tens of thousands of
additional jobs through its annual purchases of $20B in goods and
services from small to large businesses. Sodexo North America is
committed to focusing on tangible everyday gestures and actions
through its integrated services to create a better every day for
everyone and build a better life for all.About Southern
Connecticut State University
Southern Connecticut State University provides exemplary
graduate and undergraduate education in the liberal arts and
professional disciplines. As an intentionally diverse and
comprehensive university, Southern is committed to academic
excellence, access, social justice, and service for the public
good.
About Adam Equipment
Adam Equipment was founded in 1972. It designs and manufactures
precision balances and scales for professionals worldwide. Adam
Equipment’s global distribution network serves the laboratory,
medical, education, industrial, legal cannabis, food, and
animal/veterinary markets. Its head office is in Milton Keynes,
England and has extensive operations and holdings in the United
States, China, Australia, South Africa and Germany.
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