Zero Hunger | Zero Waste
Did you know that nearly 40% of food produced in the U.S. is thrown away?
That means 229 million tons of surplus available food goes unsold or uneaten every year, in addition to food left unharvested on farms. At the same time, nearly 42 million Americans – one in eight – struggle with hunger. This just doesn’t make sense.
Zero Hunger | Zero Waste
Did you know that nearly 40% of food produced in the U.S. is thrown away?
That means 229 million tons of surplus available food goes unsold or uneaten every year, in addition to food left unharvested on farms. At the same time, nearly 42 million Americans – one in eight – struggle with hunger. This just doesn’t make sense.
Let's change those numbers
Zero Hunger | Zero Waste, our impact plan, reflects our commitment to build healthier communities and improve access to affordable, fresh food for everyone – for generations to come.
How we do it
Put People First
We increase access to fresh, affordable food through our retail stores, seamless digital channels and local collaborations. We honor the farmers, workers and natural resources needed to produce the world’s food by making sure more fulfills its highest purpose: Feeding people.
Advance Sustainability
We cut greenhouse gas emissions, food waste and energy consumption; reduce waste in our operations; optimize water use; offer more sustainable packaging; and practice sustainable sourcing across our supply chain.
Promote Long-term Change
Our Innovation Fund invests in entrepreneurs and creative thinkers with new solutions to improve food security and prevent food waste.
Find data-driven solutions
We work with other organizations to use data and analytics in creative new ways to tackle these challenging, but solvable global problems.
Zero Hunger | Zero Waste Action Plan
We’ve learned a lot since introducing our Zero Hunger | Zero Waste plan five years ago. Today, Kroger’s commitment expresses our mission to:
Feed
Expand surplus food recovery and redistribution to provide a total of more than 3 billion meals to our communities by 2025 (cumulative).
Nourish
Improve health and well-being by promoting fresh foods and affordable, better-for-you options for our customers.
End waste
Embed retail best practices to optimize ordering, extend freshness and reduce waste in our own operations.
Inspire Change
Direct funding to entrepreneurs who are transforming our food system.
Advocate
Support public policy and legislative solutions that improve food access and create infrastructure for a zero-waste future.
Transform
Advance agricultural production methods around the world to conserve natural resources and protect habitats.
Collaborate
Cultivate long-standing and new relationships for meaningful action to achieve our Zero Hunger | Zero Waste goals – because we can’t do it alone.
Build stronger communities
Align charitable giving, community engagement and company-wide impact goals to create a better future for people in the communities we serve.
We’re on a mission to create communities free from hunger and waste.
We’re on a mission to end hunger in the communities we call home and eliminate waste across our company by 2025.
Zero Hunger | Zero Waste Food Rescue
Reducing food waste is a simple solution that connects people with the food they need to thrive and sends less edible food to our nation’s landfills. Food and other organic items in landfills take a long time to break down and produce a lot of methane, one of the most potent greenhouse gases. We can all help by throwing away less food and food scraps at home.
We are doing our part by following several key steps:
The Kroger Co. Zero Hunger | Zero Waste Foundation
Kroger established the Zero Hunger | Zero Waste Foundation in 2018 to align impact philanthropy to our action plan. The foundation is a nonprofit public charity focused on food system change and innovation.
Since its inception, the Zero Hunger | Zero Waste Foundation has directed impactful funding to organizations and changemakers across the country. Our signature program is the Innovation Fund, which provides catalytic capital to innovators with creative solutions to the challenges of food access, food security and food waste.
Through innovation, collaboration and community engagement, we’re committed creating communities free of hunger and waste.
The Kroger Co. Zero Hunger | Zero Waste Foundation
Kroger established the Zero Hunger | Zero Waste Foundation in 2018 to align impact philanthropy to our action plan. The foundation is a nonprofit public charity focused on food system change and innovation.
Since its inception, the Zero Hunger | Zero Waste Foundation has directed impactful funding to organizations and changemakers across the country. Our signature program is the Innovation Fund, which provides catalytic capital to innovators with creative solutions to the challenges of food access, food security and food waste.
Through innovation, collaboration and community engagement, we’re committed creating communities free of hunger and waste.
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