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Name
Mike Learakos
Title
Executive Director, Waste Not OC Coalition
Bio
Mike Learakos is a Foodservice professional with over 35 years of industry experience as a Restaurateur, manufacturer, processor and distributor. In addition to being a Restaurateur for 27 years, Mike volunteered to head the Waste Not OC Food Recovery Pilot Program in 2014 becoming the full time Executive Director in 2016. As the Executive Director, Mike has developed and directed this innovative public/private/non-profit coalition's efforts to reduce hunger and food waste through the recovery of excess edible food. Waste Not Our Communities is recognized as the country's most innovative and effective food recovery program and a national model.
Regional/National Evolution of Food Recovery
We are now in the 'next generation' of food recovery as a means of reducing food waste yet most efforts are still feeling their way through the initial process. In most cases, jurisdictions are repeating the same hard lessons learned by Waste Not OC three, four and five years ago. With SB1383 compliance around the corner, it is critical that we elevate the effectiveness of food recovery with large scale regional and national solutions using a collaborative public, private and non-profit coalition approach that allows each city or county to have their own signature programs but provides large scale benefits associated with working nationally.
Waste Not OC (Our Communities) along with Edgar and Associates have created a state model that maximizes those regional and national resources and assets to improve capacity and efficiencies. We would like to discuss an overview of how a regional/national coalition can exponentially improve performance levels and cost benefits. We would like to dive into the details of how this approach benefits the public, private and non-profit sectors by fundamentally changing and improving how we reduce food waste and hunger.
Regional/National Evolution of Food Recovery
We are now in the 'next generation' of food recovery as a means of reducing food waste yet most efforts are still feeling their way through the initial process. In most cases, jurisdictions are repeating the same hard lessons learned by Waste Not OC three, four and five years ago. With SB1383 compliance around the corner, it is critical that we elevate the effectiveness of food recovery with large scale regional and national solutions using a collaborative public, private and non-profit coalition approach that allows each city or county to have their own signature programs but provides large scale benefits associated with working nationally.
Waste Not OC (Our Communities) along with Edgar and Associates have created a state model that maximizes those regional and national resources and assets to improve capacity and efficiencies. We would like to discuss an overview of how a regional/national coalition can exponentially improve performance levels and cost benefits. We would like to dive into the details of how this approach benefits the public, private and non-profit sectors by fundamentally changing and improving how we reduce food waste and hunger.
