ReFED Insights Engine.
Data and solutions for food waste.
ReFED is a national nonprofit dedicated to ending food loss and waste across the U.S. food system by advancing data-driven solutions. Together we created a platform to achieve exactly that.
Collaborating with key audiences to generate large-scale, meaningful impact.
38% of all food in the USA is wasted.
The equivalent of 149 billion meals annually. It's valued at $444 billion, roughly 2% of U.S. GDP, and it has the same climate footprint as the entire U.S. aviation industry (passenger, commercial, and military).
Data-backed solutions.
The platform provides an extensive cost-benefit analysis of 40+ solutions.
Centralizing knowledge.
Built with data from more than 50 public and proprietary datasets.
A worthy investment.
10 years of $14b annually could reduce food waste by 45Mt and a benefit of $73b each year.
Developing the ReFED platform.
Delivered with impact.
Lots of data doesn’t have to mean slow.
Creating a frontend as easy to use as the ReFED Insights Engine requires extra care in the backend. The key to success is a good definition of the filters and aggregates that the system needs to offer. Once those were defined for the Food Waste Monitor, we optimized the database for specific types of queries using a data analysis solution that reduces the original facts table from more than 3 million rows to less than 40 thousand. As a result, a search query can return data in around 150 milliseconds.
