Organizations
Works to promote innovation and highlight the value and efficient management of food as a resource
What is the EPA?
Term used for the process of managing and recovering waste, waste utilization, and recovery
What is recycling?
Creates a nutrient-rich soil amendment to promote growth and reduce food waste
What is composting?
About 63 million tons were produced by the commercial, institutional, and residential sectors as estimated by the EPA
What is wasted food?
Considered a triple win; it's good for the environment, for communities, and the economy
What is reducing wasted food?
Signed a formal agreement...attempting to better educate Americans on the impacts and importance of reducing food loss and waste
Who are the leaders of the EPA, USDA, and FDA?
Target of reduction by the Sustainable Food Management Cycle
What is wasted food?
Prioritizes actions organizations can take to prevent and divert wasted food
What is the Food Recovery Hierarchy?
Food that is donated to feed people
What is Excess Food?
Reducing waste and improving waste management can help create these
What are cleaner communities?
Estimated that in 2010, 31% or 133 billion pounds of the 430 billion pounds of food available at the retail and consumer levels was not eaten
What is the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)?
Production, processing, distribution, retail, and consumption
What are the five major stages of the food system or supply chain?
Fourth Tier of the Food Recovery Hierarchy
What is Industrial Uses?
Overarching term to describe food that was not used for its intended purpose and is managed in a variety of ways
What is Wasted Food?
Recovering and recycling wasted food through donation, salvaging, processing, industrial reuse, and composting strengthens infrastructure resulting in...
What are job opportunities?
Determined that between 702 and 828 million people were affected by hunger in 2021
What is the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations?
Contrast to ideas of agriculture and food production and consumption as a simple, linear chain from farm to table
What is a food system?
Used as a last resort for food waste disposal
What is a landfill?
Food that was not ultimately consumed by humans that is discarded or recycled, such as plate waste, spoiled food, or peels and rinds considered inedible
What is Food Waste?
More than what percentage of greenhouse gas emissions from landfilled food waste results from activities prior to disposal, including production, transport, processing, and distribution
What is 85%?
Businesses and organizations that have made a public commitment to reduce food loss and waste in their own operations in the U.S. by 50% by the year 2030
Who are the U.S. Food Loss and Waste 2030 Champions?
Systematic approach to reduce wasted food and its effects over the entire life cycle, starting with the use of natural resources, manufacturing, sales, and consumption and ending with decisions on recovery or final disposal
What is Sustainable Management of Food?
Create the most benefits for the environment, society, and the economy
What are the top levels of the Food Recovery Hierarchy?
Unused product from the agricultural sector, such as unharvested crops
What is Food Loss?
Reducing food waste also reduces the production of this heat-trapping gas
What is methane?