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Whole Foods Market

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Whole Foods Market is committed to reducing its food waste by 50% by 2030. To achieve this goal, they take a holistic approach – decreasing the amount of food waste they generate; donating all eligible, edible food; and diverting non-edible food waste via organic diversion programs like composting.

Food Waste Reduction Strategies

  • Decrease food waste by working to prevent it from ever happening in the first place with smart inventory and ordering management, as well as in-store systems for using produce culls in added-value products and culinary applications.

  • Ensuring that 100% of Whole Foods Market stores have robust food waste diversion programs, such as composting or anaerobic digestion. Collectively, these programs kept over 87,000 tons of unsold food out of landfills in 2023.

  • Ensuring that 100% of our stores are donating all eligible, edible food. In 2023 alone, Whole Foods Market donated over 28 million meals to nearly 1,000 unique food rescue and redistribution programs across the country.