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# Divert: Divert is an impact technology company on a mission to Protect the Value of Food™. Founded in 2007, the company creates advanced technologies and sustainable infrastructure to eliminate wasted food, driving social and environmental impact. Divert provides an end-to-end solution that prevents waste by maximizing the freshness of food, recovers edible food to serve communities in need, and converts wasted food into renewable energy.

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## Posts
- [The Food Waste Circularity Outputs No One’s Talking About Recover Vital Fertilizer and Water](https://divertinc.com/the-food-waste-circularity-outputs-no-ones-talking-about-recover-vital-fertilizer-and-water/): While renewable natural gas often dominates the food waste conversation, Divert is proving that full circularity requires extracting clean nutrients and recycled water from the grocery supply chain.
- [WA skilled workforce will help build the state’s future in climate tech](https://divertinc.com/wa-skilled-workforce-will-help-build-the-states-future-in-climate-tech/): A first-of-its-kind, carbon-negative energy and agricultural product plant represents the cutting edge of the Pacific Northwest's green economy.
- [Wasted Food Has Nutrients Worth Saving. Divert Gets Them Back to the Soil. ](https://divertinc.com/recycling-nutrients-minimizing-plastic-contamination/): Commercial compost often carries plastics from food packaging into farmland. Divert's anaerobic digestion process and High-Recovery Depackaging system filter contaminants and return a cleaner, nutrient-rich digestate to local farms. Learn how it works.
- [This Longview facility is turning grocery store food waste into energy](https://divertinc.com/this-longview-facility-is-turning-grocery-store-food-waste-into-energy/): What happens to unsold food from grocery stores? A new Longview facility is converting food waste from across Oregon and Washington into renewable natural gas.
- [Divert Opens Longview, Washington Facility to Expand Circular Infrastructure for Unsold Food in the Pacific Northwest  ](https://divertinc.com/divert-opens-longview-facility-to-expand-circular-infrastructure-in-the-pacific-northwest/): Facility supports food retailers, distributors, and manufacturers by diverting organic materials from landfills and delivering renewable energy and fertilizers to the region
- [Food System Circularity Is Recovering Hidden Value and Reducing Waste ](https://divertinc.com/food-system-circularity-is-recovering-hidden-value/): Reducing food waste requires more than landfill diversion—it demands a circular economy approach that recovers energy, nutrients, water, and insights from unsold food. This post explores what true food system circularity looks like, why the current linear model falls short, and how purpose-built infrastructure is closing the loop.
- [Divert Secures Strategic Partnership with Mitsubishi to Scale Circular Infrastructure Across North America](https://divertinc.com/divert-secures-strategic-partnership-with-mitsubishi-to-scale-circular-infrastructure-across-north-america/): Partnership combines capital and RNG offtake arrangement, advancing Divert to a valuation of over $1 billion
- [Divert, Inc. Secures Funding to Scale Infrastructure Addressing the Wasted Food Crisis in North America](https://divertinc.com/divert-inc-secures-funding-to-scale-infrastructure-addressing-the-wasted-food-crisis-in-north-america/): New funding and board appointments signal international support for the company's accelerated expansion of solutions to advance food system circularity
- [Rethinking Shrink: Divert Helps Produce Departments Do More With Unsold Food](https://divertinc.com/rethinking-shrink-divert-helps-produce-departments-do-more-with-unsold-food/): With Divert, grocers have cut waste and raised food donations by 20% in three months.
- [Turning Process Loss into Performance Gains: Waste Reduction Strategies for Food Manufacturers](https://divertinc.com/turning-process-loss-into-performance-gains-waste-reduction-strategies-for-food-manufacturers/): Andrew Johnston speaks on how food manufacturers can turn losses into gains through strategic waste reduction.
- [Waste World – Andrew Johnston on Divert’s Industrial Strategy](https://divertinc.com/waste-world-andrew-johnston-on-diverts-industrial-strategy/): Gage Edwards and Andrew Johnston discuss how Divert is scaling food waste solutions nationwide.
- [Waste World –  Reducing Retail Wasted Food with Ben Kuethe Oaks](https://divertinc.com/waste360/): Gage Edwards talks with Ben Kuethe Oaks about how Divert is reshaping food retail.
- [Waste360: Divert and United States Cold Storage](https://divertinc.com/waste360-divert-and-united-states-cold-storage/): What U.S. Cold used to send to landfill is now converted into RNG and fertilizers.
- [Divert and General Produce Partner to Transform Non-Donatable Food to Renewable Energy, Soil Amendment](https://divertinc.com/divert-and-general-produce-announce-partnership/): Data-driven recycling program improves supply chain efficiencies and compliance, while reducing carbon footprint.
- [Divert and Raley’s Partner to Address Hunger and Advance a Circular Food System in California & Nevada](https://divertinc.com/divert-and-raleys-address-hunger-and-circularity/): Data-driven recycling program improves supply chain efficiencies and compliance, while reducing carbon footprint.
- [Reducing Wasted Food at Scale: A Comparison of Organics Recycling Methods](https://divertinc.com/reducing-wasted-food-a-scale-a-comparison-of-organics-recycling-methods/): Explore key differences between composting, animal feed, and anaerobic digestion.
- [Unsold Food Increases Over 20% in Summer Months. What Can Companies Do to Prevent It?](https://divertinc.com/unsold-food-increases-over-20-in-summer-months-what-can-companies-do-to-prevent-it/): New 2024 data from Divert shows a 20% increase in unsold food during the summer versus the winter.
- [How the Food Industry Can Combat the Fallout from Tariffs and Inflation](https://divertinc.com/how-the-food-industry-can-combat-the-fallout-from-tariffs-and-inflation/): Rising prices pressure every link in the food chain. Reducing waste is one of the few solutions that improves both environmental and economic outcomes.
- [Divert and United States Cold Storage Transform Food That Can’t Be Sold or Donated into Renewable Energy](https://divertinc.com/divert-and-united-states-cold-storage-transform-unsold-food-into-renewable-energy/): Data-driven recycling program improves supply chain efficiencies and compliance, while reducing carbon footprint.
- [Why Anaerobic Digestion is the Right Solution for Liquid Waste](https://divertinc.com/why-anaerobic-digestion-is-the-right-solution-for-liquid-waste/): Anaerobic digestion does what other organic processing solutions can't for liquid waste.
- [Chain Store Age: Fred Meyer Expands Recycling Program Chainwide](https://divertinc.com/chain-storage-fred-meyer-expands-recycling-program-chainwide/): In 2024, the program kept over 5.4M pounds of unsold food products out of the landfill.
- [How Circular Economy Models Can Support Operational Resilience](https://divertinc.com/how-circular-economy-models-can-support-operational-resilience/): VP of Industrials Andrew Johnston writes for Food Engineering Mag about how circular economy models can stabilize food & bev operations.
- [Divert Expands Organics Recycling Program to all Fred Meyer Stores](https://divertinc.com/divert-expands-organics-recycling-program-to-all-fred-meyer-stores/): Collaboration accelerates the impact of wasted food prevention and food recovery across the Pacific Northwest.
- [The Environmental Challenges of Recycling Unsold Food](https://divertinc.com/the-environmental-challenges-of-recycling-unsold-food/): Learn about how Divert responsibly manages the environmental challenges of processing unconsumed food.
- [Compliance Meets Brand Protection: Certified Destruction of Industrial Food Waste ](https://divertinc.com/compliance-meets-brand-protection-certified-destruction-of-industrial-food-waste/): Guidance for industrial food companies on finding a diversion solution to ensure security, compliance, and sustainability.
- [Choosing the Right Food Waste Diversion Solution for Industrial Operations](https://divertinc.com/choosing-the-right-food-waste-diversion-solution-for-industrial-operations/): This post offers insights for manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers, and storage companies on what to look for in food waste diversion solutions.
- [Understanding Methane Emissions: The Role of Landfilled Food Waste in Climate Change](https://divertinc.com/understanding-methane-emissions-the-role-of-landfilled-food-waste-in-climate-change/): What if there was a way to turn a potent source of climate pollution into a climate solution?
- [The Cool Down: Grocery Giant Achieves Success with New Policy](https://divertinc.com/the-cool-down-grocery-giant-achieves-success-with-new-policy/): At Safeway, food is reaching people in need instead of landfills in partnership with Divert.
- [Triad Business Journal: Company expanding in Lexington finds gold in unsold food](https://divertinc.com/company-expanding-in-lexington-finds-gold-in-unsold-food/): Divert is transforming the way retailers handle unsold food, turning it into renewable energy.
- [Turlock Journal: Earth Day is every day at Divert](https://divertinc.com/2196-2/): CA State Treasurer Fiona Ma takes an Earth Day tour of Divert's Turlock facility.
- [Divert Breaks Ground on Lexington, NC Facility](https://divertinc.com/divert-breaks-ground-on-lexington-nc-facility/): New facility addresses critical need for infrastructure to reduce wasted food in the southeast U.S.
- [Optimizing Food Recovery Efforts with Fresh Data & Training](https://divertinc.com/optimizing-food-recovery-efforts-with-fresh-data-training/): Experts from Divert & Feeding America share how the partnership accelerates retailer donations.
- [Waste360: Three Pioneers’ Trailblazing Food Recovery Work](https://divertinc.com/three-pioneers-trailblazing-food-recovery-work/): Food Recovery Manager Jess Parker shares insights ahead of May 6 panel for WasteExpo.
- [Waste360: Food Retailers Step Up to Feed Families, Not Landfills](https://divertinc.com/food-retailers-step-up-to-feed-families-not-landfills/): Divert Dir. of Business Development Lauren Eichelberger shares insights ahead of May 6 panel for WasteExpo.
- [Waste World Podcast Featuring Divert CEO Ryan Begin](https://divertinc.com/waste-world-podcast/): CEO Ryan Begin discusses the state of wasted food diversion today and Divert's circular solution.
- [Nuveen Energy Infrastructure Credit Finances Divert](https://divertinc.com/nuveen-energy-infrastructure-credit-finances-divert/): Financing includes $90M+ to fund infrastructure to address the wasted food crisis in the southeast U.S.
- [Divert, Inc. Appoints Bob Watkins as Chief Operating Officer](https://divertinc.com/bob-watkins-appointed-chief-operating-officer/): Watkins takes on new role leading operations and business technology as Divert scales its circular solutions nationwide.
- [Divert Co-Founder Nick Whitman Transitions to Board of Directors Role ](https://divertinc.com/divert-co-founder-nick-whitman-transitions-to-board-of-directors-role/): Whitman assumes strategic advisory position to support the company’s rapid growth.
- [Transforming Waste into Opportunity](https://divertinc.com/transforming-waste-into-opportunity/): Solomon Partners' new reports highlights Divert among innovators preventing waste.
- [Divert, Inc. Appoints Brad Lukow as Chief Financial Officer](https://divertinc.com/divert-inc-appoints-brad-lukow-as-chief-financial-officer/): Lukow brings 30 years of finance and capital markets experience as Divert scales its nationwide infrastructure.
- [Giant Food and Divert Prevent Nearly 80M Pounds of Unsold Food from Being Wasted](https://divertinc.com/giant-food-and-divert-prevent-nearly-80m-pounds-of-unsold-food-from-being-wasted/): Giant Food, the leading greater Washington, D.C. regional grocery chain, and Divert, Inc., a circular economy company on a mission to prevent food from being wasted, today announced a milestone of nearly 80 million pounds of unsold food products processed since 2022, the equivalent of mitigating more than 37,000 metric tons of CO2e.
- [2025 Predictions: 4 Key Trends that Will Shape the Food Industry This Year](https://divertinc.com/2025-predictions-4-key-trends-that-will-shape-the-food-industry-this-year/): With 2025 fully underway, the food industry is poised for significant progress in preventing and reducing food from going to waste. We asked experts at Divert to weigh in on how this progress will take shape in the year ahead, and how the industry can work together to bring it to fruition. With retailers taking the lead in fostering collaboration across the supply chain, we can expect stronger commitments to sustainable practices that benefit both businesses and consumers. Efforts to combat food waste will gain momentum as policies aimed at prevention and reduction become more widely adopted. At the same time, improvements in permitting processes will be essential to expanding the infrastructure needed to support these changes. Amidst a changing economic and political landscape, 2025 is ripe with opportunity to make progress on the fight to end food waste.  
- [Depackaging: The Key to Quality Diversion](https://divertinc.com/depackaging-the-key-to-quality-diversion/): This post explores the environmental risks of ineffective depackaging solutions for processing food waste into compost or digestate.
- [Divert Appoints Katherine Pazakis as Chief Commercial Officer](https://divertinc.com/divert-appoints-katherine-pazakis-as-chief-commercial-officer/): Pazakis brings 20 years of experience to lead Divert’s commercial teams and scale customer and revenue growth nationwide.
- [Divert Processed over 630M Pounds of Unsold Food Products in 2024](https://divertinc.com/divert-processed-over-630m-pounds-of-unsold-food-products-in-2024/): Company is well-positioned for a transformative year driven by increases in processing volume and more.
- [Divert Among “16 Companies to Watch in 2025”](https://divertinc.com/inc-magazine/): Divert has been named among 16 firms to watch in 2025 by Inc. Magazine.
- [The Cost of Wasted Food](https://divertinc.com/the-cost-of-wasted-food/): This blog post explores the economic consequences of wasted food, and what businesses can do to reduce wasted food at scale.
- [Divert Expands Executive Team with Four New Strategic Hires](https://divertinc.com/divert-expands-executive-team-with-four-new-strategic-hires/): Four new executives join Divert as the company scales its solutions to address the wasted food crisis.
- [Modesto Bee: Turlock plant converts food to fuel](https://divertinc.com/modesto-bee/): Local food banks get their share too.
- [Divert Celebrates Milestone with Turlock, CA Facility Opening](https://divertinc.com/divert-celebrates-milestone-with-turlock-ca-facility-opening/): Facility is the first-of-its-kind for the state and marks significant momentum in the company’s robust expansion roadmap.

## Pages
- [Retail Customer Solutions](https://divertinc.com/solutions-for-retail-customers/): Unsold food can be difficult to quantify in a retail environment. A lack of visibility makes understanding the sources of unsold food and putting corrective actions in place more difficult.
- [Industrial Customer Solutions](https://divertinc.com/solutions-for-industrial-customers/): Contact us today for your free, no-obligation waste consultation.
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- [Frequently Asked Questions](https://divertinc.com/frequently-asked-questions/): Wasted food is a global problem that has far-reaching implications for the future security of our food systems. When we waste food, we waste everything: land, water, nutrients, labor, energy. At Divert, we believe that food should be protected as the valuable resource that it is by taking a circular approach to managing unsold food: providing data to help our customers prevent waste upstream, facilitating the recovery of edible food for people in need, and transforming unsold food products into renewable energy through anaerobic digestion. To understand the problem and our solution better, we've outlined frequently asked questions below.  
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## Case Studies
- [Safeway Increases Food Donations by 20% in 3 Months with Divert’s Optimization Solution](https://divertinc.com/case-studies/safeway-increases-donations-with-divert-optimization-solution/): Safeway looked to Divert’s optimization solution to help strategize a better approach to food recovery. With proprietary technology and an experienced field team, Divert created a strategy tailored to Safeway’s operational needs, with incredible results.
- [Major Grocery Retailer Leverages Divert’s RFID Tracking and Technology, Sees 9% Reduction in Wasted Food](https://divertinc.com/case-studies/data-technology-grocery-retailer-sustainability/): A major grocery retail brand in the Mid-Atlantic states was looking for a technology solution that would provide visibility into its individual store operations, help decrease the amount of unsold food leaving its back room and reduce shrink, and have a positive impact on its bottom line.
- [A Food Circular Economy: Valuing Food at All Stages of its Lifecycle with Divert](https://divertinc.com/case-studies/food-diversion-infrastructure-solutions/): Together with a certified sustainable farm in the Pacific Northwest, Divert brought its innovative approach to implementing unsold food diversion programs to create one of the most impactful closed-loop stories in the U.S.
- [Divert Diversion Field Team Facilitates Significant Trash and Inedible Food Cost Reduction for Major Supermarket Chain](https://divertinc.com/case-studies/applied-expertise-waste-cost-reduction/): One of the largest food and drug retailers in the U.S. was seeking the right partner and solutions to reduce trash and inedible food, increase food donations of still edible food, and ultimately save on costs.