Civil Eats

JULY 15, 2024

On an unseasonably sunny day in March, at a community garden in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bushwick, Dan Gross and Shaq Benn moved piles of wood chips and hosed down shoulder-high windrows of compost. Tucked underneath elevated train tracks, Know Waste Lands is the home base of the compost-hauling nonprofit BK Rot.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The New Earth Project is developing compost processes to create a symbiotic relationship and benefit the community. Carbon Capture through Composting New Earth collects food surplus from three school cafeterias and combines it with woody biomass, agricultural byproducts, and biochar in Johnson-Su compost bioreactors.

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Civil Eats

MAY 14, 2024

The mayor's budget cuts will eliminate a 30-year-old program that achieved much more than reducing food waste.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Zero Waste Strategies (ZWS), a Texas-based environmental consultancy, is working to clarify legal misconceptions surrounding food donation laws and ensure potential donors are informed of the incentives theyre entitled to. million tons of food in the United States went unsold or uneaten, with 32.6 Especially food waste, Savage says.

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Food Tank

JULY 17, 2024

Table2Farms is working to expand the scale of composting projects across the United States to reduce methane emissions, regenerate soil, and inspire organizations and individuals alike to compost. T he organization believes that the first step in achieving this vision is to support composting projects that already exist.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Most people don’t set out to waste food. It happens everywhere in our food system. Byproducts of processed foods get tossed out on the manufacturing line. All of these things add up; food waste cost the US $428 billion in 2022. In addition to the monetary costs, wasted food could be going to those who need it— 12.8

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Food gets wasted at every point in the system. But as we reported in our food waste explainer , the biggest wasters of food are households across the country. In 2022, food waste cost the US $428 billion. percent —of the country’s uneaten or unused food occurs at the household level. Nearly half— 48.2

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 29, 2024

Thousands of pounds of fruit go to waste every year while more than half a million area residents struggle with food insecurity. What if these food-insecure households— more than 13 percent of the county’s population —could access the abundant provision literally dropping from trees in their neighbors’ backyards?

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Food Tank is highlighting 20 books for young readers that will inspire them to think more deeply about food. These activity books, cookbooks, and stories celebrate diverse foodways and farming practices from across the world, uplift the power of community, and celebrate all that pollinators do for global food and farming systems.

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Food Tank

MARCH 29, 2024

A version of this piece was featured in Food Tank’s newsletter, released weekly on Thursdays. Here’s a trivia question: Where are the most important transformations in the food system taking place right now? And as Food Tankers know, we don’t just do this work for ourselves. Just take food waste, for example.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 4, 2024

Careit: Transforming Food Donation Careit, a food donation and rescue software, is working to empower nonprofits and communities across the United States by providing equal access to surplus food and resources. That’s happening across the U.S.

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Food Tank

JULY 2, 2024

Food Tank is compiling a list of books that will engage, educate, and inspire you this summer. Rethink your relationship with gardening in Tama Matsuoka Wong’s Into the Weeds: How to Garden Like a Forager , or learn about food systems innovations in the face of climate change in Food Systems of the Future. Historian Michelle T.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 15, 2024

Founder Trisha Bates offers a variety of services focused on food education to help transform urban space into food production sites. Urban American Farmer hosts farming courses to increase consumer awareness about sustainable food sourcing and growing practices.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Climate Change Conference, food systems experts discussed opportunities for food policy and the private sector to address food loss and waste. The conversation was hosted by Food Tank and the Nordic Council of Ministers. Food loss in the Global South and the Global North are very very different.”

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Food Tank

JULY 12, 2024

A version of this piece was featured in Food Tank’s newsletter, released weekly on Thursdays. I’m still reflecting on something Zitouni Ould-Dada, a Senior Advisor at FAIRR, said during Food Tank’s inaugural London Climate Action Week Summit earlier this summer. And as Food Tankers, we need to reflect on ourselves, too.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Harward and some families gathered food for the family, but she knew more had to be done. It was her daughter who mentioned all the food going to waste at her school and asked her mom a simple question: Why couldn’t they give families the food from her school instead of throwing it away? Helping Hands Ending Hunger.

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Caff

APRIL 20, 2021

This video explores on-farm composting, including a brief overview of California’s new best management practices mandate for on-farm composting as well as the food safety and organic requirements. Hear from two different farmers, including a on-site video of the Frog Hollow Farm composting operation.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 13, 2025

Zero Foodprint, a nonprofit dedicated to mobilizing resources for regenerative agriculture, is calling for a transformative shift in how the United States food system funds sustainable practices. They dont have the opportunity to practice cover cropping or composting, because most of their revenue goes to cover basic costs. If the U.S.

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USDA Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

As a public policy analysis major focusing on economics, she found that the experience enabled her to connect her educational background with a familiar cause: food security. I connected with the overall end goal to reduce waste,” she said.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

“Upcycled” is the food trend of the year—and, hopefully, it’s one of the rare ones that is here to stay. When announcing their forecasts for food trends in 2024, organizations ranging from Whole Foods to Mintel to the Specialty Food Association predicted a growing consumer interest in foods made with upcycled ingredients.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Can this strategy also work at grocery stores, where an estimated 119 billion pounds of food gets wasted each year? The study zeros in on the question: What does more to stop food from being wasted from grocery stores—food waste diversion systems or smart pricing strategies? All of this food waste—35 percent of the U.S.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Bans on organic waste, or food waste, offer a tool to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In requiring food scraps to go somewhere other than landfills, waste bans help to avoid the methane that typically comes from food rotting in landfills, Dana Gunders, President of ReFED , tells Food Tank.

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Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2024

Across the city of Atlanta, Georgia, many organizations are working to build a food system that centers community wellbeing with the health of the planet. On April 14, Food Tank is heading to Atlanta to partner with Spelman College and Emory University for the Summit “ Empowering Eaters: Access, Affordability, and Healthy Choices.”

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 1, 2024

On September 25, Congresswoman Julia Brownley (CA-26) and I introduced the Voluntary Food Climate Labeling Act, legislation that will revolutionize the way consumers learn about the climate impact of the food they eat. Articles like the one you just read are made possible through the generosity of Food Tank members.

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ATTRA

JULY 2, 2024

USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, under the Office of Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production, is soliciting proposals from eligible applicants to host a Composting and Food Waste Reduction pilot project. The agency expects to award a total of approximately $7.8

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 17, 2023

By Emilie Ritter If you live in Missoula, Montana, you’ve probably seen the blue e-bikes transporting food scraps around town. I think about food a lot because I love to eat and value the effort and beauty of the growing process. “I I think about food a lot because I love to eat and value the effort and beauty of the growing process.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Environment Programme (UNEP) West Asia and food technology company Winnow, Hilton recently announced that it achieved a 61-percent reduction in food waste across three major hotels in the Middle East during Ramadan festivities this year. We said, why don’t we try to close the loop and create a circular economy process?”

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Food Tank

JUNE 14, 2024

When properly resourced, it can be utilized as a framework to achieve food justice and create a more sustainable food system rooted in equity, community power, and climate resiliency. It is rooted in practices that support the environment, promote sustainable methods of food production, and minimize waste.

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Jayson Lusk

MARCH 6, 2023

Given the lack of harmonization and potential public confusion around terms used to describe the bioeconomy, a survey was designed to to determine consumer knowledge, beliefs, and preferences for the following 10 terms: biobased, biodegradable, bioeconomy, bioplastics, biopolymer, circular economy, compostable, organic, plant-based, and recyclable.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Food production accounts for 26 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions , and past COP conferences have been accused of greenwashing , in part by offering meat on the menu while talking about reducing global meat consumption. This year, at COP28 in Dubai, global food systems and agriculture were discussed more than ever before.

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Caff

MAY 2, 2024

On April 10th, Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF) hosted a field day at Heartwood Farms in Linden, CA with farmers Franz Eilers and Emma Wade to discuss all things compost and pest management on their biologically-integrated walnut and cherry orchards. The compost created from ground-up walnut prunings and cover crop mowings.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 11, 2024

And so, even though they grew abundantly without being planted, most of them just went to the compost pile. Photography by Ngoc Minh Ngo) MF: You forage foods such as lemon balm, chickweed and nettle, and your buyers include some very nice restaurants in New York City. TMW: I want [the work that I do] to become part of the food system.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 28, 2023

The pipe leads to a food waste collection tank and, after securing the hose, Page twists open a valve and begins pumping 2,000 gallons of spent cooking oil into the tank. PFAS contamination in food waste getting spread on farm fields is a potential concern. “It Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 5, 2024

Share this Only recently has the idea of reducing food waste moved beyond a niche concern. Even as fighting food waste has entered the mainstream consciousness 38 percent of all food in the U.S. is simply thrown away, and the average household tosses out almost $2,000 a year in wasted food.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 5, 2024

Share this I am an expert on wasting food, if only because I do it so much. Almost nothing — except for this week, when I committed to tracking my food and what becomes of it. Almost nothing — except for this week, when I committed to tracking my food and what becomes of it. Approximately 40 percent of all food in the U.S.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The world is increasingly recognizing the value of sustainable food systems, and organic agriculture plays a vital role in this movement. This translates to healthier food and a healthier environment and reduces reliance on synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. For the FY25 budget, NIFA is suggested a $3.5

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RR2CS

MARCH 29, 2022

Topic: Biochar, Compost, and Agroforestry – Three Keystones of Soil and Climate Resilience for Alberta Date: May 4th at 1:00PM Presenter: Rob Lavoie of AirTerra Cost: FREE Biochar is a charcoal-like substance that is made by burning organic material from agricultural and food wastes. Want to prepare for the webinar?

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