Food waste prevention training
Whether you’re a business, a non-profit or an individual, our food waste prevention workshops give you strategies and tips to maximize your food, save money, and reduce the environmental impact of food waste.
Here are the food waste prevention workshops we offer:
Food Date Labelling
This one-hour interactive workshop is designed to clear up the confusion about expiry and best before dates, a major cause of food waste in Canada.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- How to tell the difference between various date label terms
- How to know when food is good or not good to eat
- How to reduce food waste at home
- How date labels contribute to unnecessary food waste in Canada
A Guide to Food Date Labelling
This self-paced option provides all the information of the live food date labelling workshop at your own schedule.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- How to tell the difference between the various date label terms
- How to know when food is good or not good to eat
- How to reduce food waste at home
- How date labels contribute to unnecessary food waste in Canada
A Donor's Guide to Food Recovery
This self-paced learning gives businesses the information and tools they need to start donating their surplus food or improve their rescue practices.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- The impact of food waste in Canada
- Common misconceptions about donating food
- What you need to know to make regular food donations to your community
Food Storage
This one-hour interactive workshop is designed to explore food storage best practices to maximize food’s lifespan.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Best practices on how to store specific food items to prevent spoilage
- Industry tips for maximizing food at home or in commercial kitchens
- How food is unnecessarily wasted in Canada
Food Waste Audit
This one-hour interactive workshop is designed to teach you how to do a food waste audit and revolutionize food spaces. You can’t change what you don’t know, so measure your food waste to reduce it!
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Why food waste audits are important
- How to complete a simple food waste audit
- Tips for developing an impactful food waste reduction action plan
- An understanding of the environmental impacts of food waste
A Guide to Food Waste Audits
This self-paced option helps businesses and organizations to develop a streamlined process to engage in food waste audits.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Recognize the environmental impacts of food waste in Canada
- Identify why food waste audits are important
- Develop skills to conduct a food waste audit
Waste Reduction Corporate Team Building Opportunities
We’ve developed a set of engaging workshops for teams and corporate groups who want to understand the issues of food waste and loss and build skills to reduce their individual impact on the environment.
You’ve got options! Here are the corporate workshops on food waste prevention we offer:
- Food Waste and Date Labels
- Food Waste Reduction for Households
- Hands-on Food Waste Reduction for Households
- Food Waste Audit Challenge
Review the full details of our corporate training programs.
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