Ending Food Waste at Large Scale Events & Big Event Venues: Creating an Exponential Impact: Sarah Corbin, Director of Communications at Food Recover Network will describe how they mobilizes our college student and alumni leaders to recover surplus food at a variety of large-scale events which increases awareness of food recovery as a sustainable business practice, while feeding local communities with high-quality, nutritious food and reducing the amount of CO2e released into the atmosphere.
Large Scale Circularity: Ashley Gladney, Sustainability Program Manager, Charlotte Regional Visitor Authority will focus on how Large Multi-use facilities like Convention Center, and Arena can do circularity. Highlighting work at Spectrum Center (Front Office Sports Most Sustainable Venue 2024) does circularity from the t-shirts to teddy bears. To crushed glass to concrete and the newly launched BOLD reusable cup system. Ashley will also address connection to Innovation Barn in Charlotte the first of its kind venue focused on circular economy.
Resiliency, Health, Data: Growing Imperatives for Campus Reuse: College dining operations face a complex balancing act: cost control, operational efficiency, scale, sustainability, and increasingly, student health concerns. These sometimes conflicting priorities can adversely affect decisions around zero-waste initiatives. Additionally, college campuses are ideal incubators for fostering sustainable habits that students carry into their lives and careers, and today’s students are deeply concerned about the long-term health impacts of microplastics and other pollutants. How can campus operations introduce a successful reusable takeout program while balancing all these factors? Alison Cove, founder and CEO of USEFULL unpacks how campuses can address emerging health risks like microplastics, achieve zero-waste goals, scale operations to retail, stadiums, and other high-demand venues., and support back-of-house needs as programs expand.
Speakers:
- Sarah Corbin, Director of Communications, Food Recovery Network
- Ashley Gladney, Sustainability Program Manager at Charlotte Regional Visitor Authority
- Alison Cove, Founder, USEFULL