NBCU Looks to Take Big Bite Out of Food Waste

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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NBCUniversal will announce Monday (April 20) that its ongoing “Green is Universal” initiative has made the theme of this year’s Earth Week campaign the elimination of food waste.  

That can be an issue at theme parks and on studio sets, which is why the #NoFoodWasted campaign begins at home.  

According to food-knowledgeable NBCU sources, last year NBCUniversal Film & TV Production donated 28,000 meals worth of recovered food, which is more than 35,000 pounds of food.

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John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.