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Hartford Food System’s Decreasing Food Waste at Senior Centers in Hartford, $25,000 Rhode Island (RI) Department of Environmental Management RI School’s Recycling Club Get Food Smart RI, $35,000Ĭenter for Ecotechnology Wasted Food Solutions in Providence County, $25,000Ĭenter for Ecotechnology Wasted Food Solutions in New Haven County, $25,000įairgate Farm Inc. Lakes Region Planning Commission The WoTu Sustainability Cooperative Community Food Systems Project, $34,659 Northeast Waste Management Officials Association (NEWMOA) End Food Waste Initiative in East Boston, $30,000įarm to Institution New England (FINE) Addressing the Impacts of College “Grab n’ Go” Dining: A Pilot Project to Reduce the Risk of Perfluorocarbons (PFAS) in College Dining Containers Due to COVID-19 Responses, $30,000Ĭenter for Ecotechnology Wasted Food Solutions in Providence County Phase II, $35,000Ĭenter for Ecotechnology Wasted Food Solutions in New Haven County Phase II, $35,000 Below is a list of the organizations that received grant awards in the past three years to further wasted food reduction and diversion projects:Ĭenter for Ecotechnology Wasted Food Solutions in Providence County Phase III, $35,000Ĭenter for Ecotechnology Wasted Food Solutions in New Haven County Phase III, $35,000 Healthy Communities Grant Program is EPA New England's main competitive grant program to work directly with communities to reduce environmental risks, protect and improve human health and improve the quality of life. Read about the conference and view recordings of the sessions on YouTube. EPA, Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection and the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic on June 28-29, 2016. The Reduce and Recover Save Food for People Conference was co-sponsored by U.S. Reduce and Recover Save Food for People Conference Read about the workshop sessions and more on Relish Rhody, a RI Food Strategy Blog. The Path to 50 Percent Food Waste Reduction in Rhode Island (RI) Workshop was co-sponsored by EPA Region 1, the Rhode Island (RI) Departments of Health and Environmental Management, the RI Governors Office, the RI Food Policy Council and the RI Hospitality Association on October 4, 2018. Note: Read a disclaimer about the information presented on this Web pageĮPA Region 1: Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and VermontĬurrent projects and grants awarded by the EPA New England Sustainable Food Management Program are listed below: Path to 50 Percent Food Waste Reduction in Rhode Island Workshop Choose your state or EPA region from the map below or scroll down to find information about state and/or EPA regional wasted food prevention and diversion efforts. There are growing efforts both to prevent wasted food from occurring in the first place and to divert if from landfills and incinerators. EPA estimates that more food reaches landfills and incinerators that any other single material in our everyday trash, constituting 24 percent of the amount landfilled and 22 percent of the amount combusted with energy recovery. In 2018 alone, EPA estimates that about 63 million tons of wasted food were generated in the commercial, institutional, and residential sectors, with about 32 percent being managed by animal feed, bio-based materials/biochemical processing, codigestion/anaerobic digestion, composting, donation, land application, and sewer/wastewater treatment. The amount of food Americans throw away each year is staggering. EPA compiled a list of national resources that can help you find information in your community about recycling, pollution prevention, food rescue, food donation and composting.įood loss and waste is a growing problem in our modern society.
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