Food waste goes beyond joining the Clean Plate Club. According to Last Mile Food Rescue, up to 40 percent of all food produced ends up in the trash, and with one in five Cincinnatians facing food insecurity, the waste is even greater. Add to this missed opportunity the methane gas released in landfills from discarded groceries, and a societal issue grows into an environmental threat. But Last Mile has been on a mission since late 2020 to close the gap created by food waste.

In fall 2022, the organization partnered with 84.51°, a retail data science and insight company developed by Kroger, to create a new survey. The data would advance the nonprofit’s mission and support its continued growth with critical insights from other nonprofits on the front lines of food insecurity. “Part of what we would call living our purpose here at 84.51° is really about using data for good across our communities,” Andrew Cron, 84.51°’s chief scientist, says.

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