Updated 09/20/2017


The Kroger Company says its new national effort is aimed at helping end hunger and eliminating waste across the grocery company by the year 2025.

Chief Executive Rodney McMullen says more than 40 percent of the food produced in the U.S. isn’t consumed and an estimated 72 billion pounds goes to landfills annually. He says no food in Kroger stores should be wasted and no families in those communities should go hungry.

To help end this waste, the company has requested ideas to carry out its “Zero Hunger/Zero Waste” plan.