Donations, pigs part of Las Vegas' efforts to cut food waste

LAS VEGAS — At a farm outside Las Vegas, a herd of pigs feasts on lobster, sausage links and beef. In town, people at a community centre sit for a dinner that may include sliders and truffle mac and cheese.

Food scraps are turned into compost or taken to a farm to feed thousands of pigs. Expired minibar snacks are donated to community organizations. Banquet meals that were never served go to a food bank. Oyster shells are even shipped thousands of miles to Chesapeake Bay. “Most people, when they think about recycling, they think about the standard metal, plastic, paper — and the reality is, for an organization like MGM, food, food waste, food scraps is a significant part of our waste footprint,” said Yalmaz Siddiqui, vice-president of corporate sustainability at MGM Resorts International. “Our main approach is to think about the type of food that’s coming out of our operations and directing that type of food to the best destination it could go to.

On a recent afternoon, food bank employees picked up more than 250 beef sliders, truffle mac and cheese and stir fry from the Aria casino-resort. Trays of chicken sliders did not meet the required temperature. The federal government has estimated more than one-third of all available food in the U.S. is wasted.

The farm’s 5,000 pigs are fed boiled food scraps exclusively. Trucks haul 25 tons to 35 tons of food a day from the Strip to the farm. The process is part of the waste management package the companies purchase.The practice of feeding food scraps to pigs has federal approval but is not widely used at U.S. farms, which favour a regimented diet of corn, wheat and soybean meal.

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