{"id":1421,"date":"2016-10-03T10:54:44","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T15:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/questrmg.com\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2020-02-27T15:49:57","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T21:49:57","slug":"the-huffington-post-features-quests-food-recycling-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/questrmg.com\/the-huffington-post-features-quests-food-recycling-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Quest food recycling Featured In The Huffington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a recent article, Farm Animals Actually Eat People\u2019s Leftovers \u2014 And It\u2019s Good For The Planet<\/a><\/span>, the Huffington Post explored the benefits of feeding unsellable food from restaurants and grocery stores to livestock. Quest’s Quest’s food recycling program<\/a><\/span>\u00a0was featured in the article.<\/p>\n

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Quest Resource Management Group helps grocers and other companies reduce the amount of waste they generate.\u00a0The largest portion of Quest\u2019s business comes from its work helping grocery stores reduce their food waste, mostly by donating scraps to farms.<\/p>\n

According to Hatch, the company helped divert over 600,000 tons of scraps from the waste stream last year, 60 percent of which was used to feed animals, while 35 percent was composted and another 5 percent was converted into a renewable energy source by going through\u00a0anaerobic digestion.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose tons, before we came along, were all going to the landfill,\u201d said Ray Hatch, the company\u2019s CEO. \u201cEverything went in the dumpster.\u201d<\/p>\n

The company works with four of the top 10 national food retailers, including Walmart, and three large regional chains, according to Vanessa Lepice, its vice president of marketing and new business development.<\/p>\n

All told, they are working with about 6,000 grocery stores throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico. They train partnering stores\u2019\u00a0employees how to properly separate scraps that can be donated to local farms and processed into animal feed from types of waste that are not safe for the animals to eat, like plastic packaging and raw meat.<\/p>\n

It appears to be working.\u00a0The amount of food waste the company has diverted has grown fivefold since the program was first rolled out in 2010, including about 20 percent each of the past two years, Quest said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The above excerpt is from the original article by\u00a0Joseph Erbentraut<\/span> published on The Huffington Post website. Click here<\/a> <\/span>to read the full article.<\/p>\n

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In a recent article, Farm Animals Actually Eat People\u2019s Leftovers \u2014 And It\u2019s Good For The Planet, the Huffington Post explored the benefits of feeding unsellable food from restaurants and grocery stores to livestock. Quest’s Quest’s food recycling program\u00a0was featured in the article. Quest Resource Management Group helps grocers and other companies reduce the amount…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":1426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,19,26,27],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-food-waste","tag-food-waste-management","tag-food-recycling","tag-food-waste-recycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/questrmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/questrmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/questrmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/questrmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/questrmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/questrmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/questrmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/questrmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/questrmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/questrmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}