Food Waste Matters Resources draft Jan 2021
Handouts
SMART Fruit and Vegetable Storage Guide Smart Storage: Fruits and Vegetables Storage Tips (epa.gov)
SMART FOOD: Prep Now Eat Later Smart Prep: Prep Now, Eat Later (epa.gov)
SMART EAT FIRST sign Smart Saving: "Eat First" Sign (epa.gov)
USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service in-depth information
Basics for Food Safety Basics for Handling Food Safely (usda.gov)
Safe Food Handling Fact Sheets Safe Food Handling Fact Sheets (usda.gov)
Food Product Dating Food Product Dating (usda.gov)
Helpful websites:
Save the FOOD Interactive tips and storage guides Storage - Save The Food
Meal planning and Guest-imator, recipes
Scrap Food Waste Official Vermont Site Home | Eat What You Buy. Compost the Scraps. (scrapfoodwaste.org)
EPA Sustainable Management of Food | US EPA
Impact Earth community composting program Impact Earth (impactearthroc.com)
Love Food Hate Waste U.K. program Love Food Hate Waste |
WASTED tips and articles Wasted Food -- Jonathan Bloom on food waste and how it can be avoided | a look at how America squanders nearly half of its food
Food Shift Opportunities for Food program Home - Food Shift
Landfills and Methane Landfills have a huge greenhouse gas problem. Here's what we can do about it. | Ensia
some other great resources are:
Onondaga County's End Food Waste
The NY Dept of Environmental Conservation has some other great resources like recipe finders, meal planning and storage tools, as well as links to communities such as King County, CA and the the UKs Love Food Hate Waste
https://www.dec.ny.gov/chemical/98102.html
The NYS Pollution Prevention Institute has lots of good resources, especially for food service institutions
https://www.rit.edu/affiliate/nysp2i/food-waste-diversion