Denali, an organics processing firm based in Russellville, Arkansas has partnered with NASCAR and Levy, a food services and restaurant company based in Chicago, to collect food scraps from 11 NASCAR tracks and redirect the scraps to prevent them from going to landfills. Denali wants to help the earth by turning organic waste into valuable resources. Levy focuses on preventing waste, reducing waste at the source, and recovering waste to divert surplus food and wants to reduce food waste by 50% before 2030. Denali and Levy estimate that NASCAR races produce an average of 5,000 pounds of food waste at each event. The program will be implemented at the tracks owned by NASCAR, including the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida, the city where NASCAR’s headquarters is located. NASCAR believes that its organization is among the first major sports leagues to adopt a nationwide food recycling program. It wants to expand on the nearly 57,000 pounds of food that it recycled from events across the U.S. last year. The sports organization will continue its work with Levy from 2024 to donate leftover and edible products to families in local communities who are food insecure. Denali will gather any food that cannot be donated and turn it into compost, soils, fertilizer, and animal feed. Denali expects a reduction of 26.14 metric tons of CO2 in greenhouse gas emissions from this practice.
Denali, Levy, and NASCARS’ Partnership to Divert Food Waste at races
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