CITIES
Photo credit:
Santa Monica waste truck | Chanel Kincaid
Looking to get your city involved in food waste prevention?
There are plenty of resources and templates available to help your city become a champion in food waste reduction. Explore these tools to integrate into your city’s initiatives for this year’s Food Waste Prevention Week.
NRDC has produced Save The Food to be an open source–like public education campaign that raises awareness about the impact of household food waste and helps arm consumers with the tools to prevent food from going to waste at home. Many of the assets can be downloaded directly from the Partner Kit.
Making a public commitment to reduce food waste is an important way to harness city leadership and constituent buy-in. It also increases accountability and can inspire other cities
Cities interested in reducing food waste should consider ways to involve business sectors in their efforts, particularly those sectors most often linked to higher food waste generation, such as food service.
A Model Executive Order on Municipal Leadership on Food Waste Reduction, designed to give municipalities options to “lead by example” by instituting policies and programs within and across city government to raise awareness about and reduce food waste
Join the Food Matters network for cities, counties, and organizations involved in food waste reduction at the municipal level. The network provides ongoing opportunities for city partners to learn from experts, communicate with each other, and share advice and lessons learned.
Sign up at foodmatters@nrdc.org.
More REsources
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Food: Too Good to Waste (https://www.epa.gov/sustainable-management-food/food-too-good-waste-implementation-guide-and-toolkit)
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Pacific Coast Collaborative (https://pacificcoastcollaborative.org/food-waste/)
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Nashville Food Waste Initiative Food Waste Resource Guides (https://urbangreenlab.org/food-waste-education-resources/)