Food is, and always has been, foundational to the health and happiness of everyone on this planet.
 It gives us the nutrition we need; it brings us together with friends, family, and our communities; and it’s essential to the biodiversity of our environment. And although we grow more than enough to feed everyone, millions of people don’t have access to the nutrition they need. Meanwhile, billions of pounds of once-edible food go into landfills every year.

More than $1.5 trillion of food is sold in theU.S. every year and $408 billion of that goes completely uneaten. While our food system is miraculously productive, inefficiencies in the food supply chain remain systemic. Lost days of shelf life throughout the supply chain create waste at grocery stores and moldy berries when we open our fridge at home. This is a problem that can 
 and must be solved. Sowe’re stepping up to the 
 plate. At Afresh, we combine human insight and transformative technology to prevent waste and, in the process, drive access to fresh, nutrient-dense food. Letter from Our CEO: Focus on Fresh: A Call to Action. Our Fresh Operating System reduces grocery store food waste by up to 25% and enables stores to stock food with a shelf life 2+ days longer. When we buy groceries at a store that partners with Afresh, what we buy lasts longer at home, and less of it goes into the trash.

By our estimate, if every grocer in the U.S. used Afresh, we could collectively prevent 1.1 billion pounds of food waste, eliminate 620,000 metric tons of GHG emissions, and save more than 22.5 billion gallons of water. Fresh is the past, present, and future of our food system—and the waste we create today will impact our planet for years to come. Businesses need 
 to pull every lever they have to ensure future generations continue to enjoy life’s greatest joys, like sharing a freshly-made meal with friends or 
 that delicious first bite into a bright, crisp apple. I’m proud of what we’ve accomplished at Afresh since setting out on this mission, and we’re just getting started!

Matt Schwarts, CEO, Afresh