Posted: Jan 28, 2026

Insights from the 2025 ReFED Food Waste Solutions Summit

With so much energy focused on AI, automation, and tech-driven solutions, it’s easy to overlook the practices that have quietly—and consistently—delivered some of the biggest reductions in food waste. Across manufacturing, foodservice, and retail, organizations are reducing waste not by investing in the latest software, but by revisiting their fundamentals.

At the 2025 ReFED Food Waste Solutions Summit, panelists including Kathy Cacciola (Google Food Team) and Lorenzo Macaluso (Center for EcoTechnology) shared examples of practical strategies that are already working—and ready to scale anywhere.