WasteWatch is a new project from Sodexo with which they step up the fight against food waste and climate change. Sodexo targets a zero food waste Food solution by weighing food waste in production kitchens and consumer plate waste.

At various locations,  WasteWatch sets up a connected weighing scale, a screen and a high-speed distribution data warehouse. That way, they receive detailed reports on the type of food waste their activities cause and enables them to sharpen the optimization of the production planning and logistics process.  

WasteWatch estimates the potential avoidance of food waste up to 90 Tons on a yearly basis. By extrapolation, a potential saving up to 3000 tons of CO2 is estimated on a yearly basis.

Student restaurant Odisee created a unique system (www.himmorant.be) to order all meals in advance. With about 10 500 students of 6 campuses, Odisee is one of the largest education institutions of the Flemish region. Odisee reduce the waste of food and save financially.  

At noon, students and employees come almost always at the same time to the restaurant. Normally you would expect a long queue, but because everyone can order in advance, the kitchen doesn’t have to make meals (e.g. wraps, sandwiches, …) at the moment itself. Through pre-orders, the school doesn’t need to guess the amount of meals and food waste is prevented. Moreover, the food that is left from the day before could be processed in the soup the next day!