Janet Bowen represents EPA Region 1 at Triumvirate Environmental's roundtable on the MA commercial food waste ban.

1. EPAs
Food Recovery Challenge
http://www.epa.gov/foodrecoverychallenge

3. EPA’s Food Recovery Challenge
http://www.epa.gov/foodrecoverychallenge

4. EPA’s Toolkit for
Reducing Wasted
Food and Packaging
A Guide for Food
Services and Restaurants
http://www.epa.gov/foodrecovery/tools/index.htm

5. Toolkit for Reducing Wasted Food and Packaging
The Materials
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• Customized logs and Excel Spread Sheet
- Track daily amount, type and reason for wasted food & packaging
- Tool generates customizable paper logs
- Enter data into Excel spreadsheet tool
- Tool creates graphs and data summaries to identify patterns
• Guidebook
- helps turn audit results into action

6. Conducting a Food Waste Assessment
The Materials
• Guidebook
• Narrated Slideshow

7. Conducting a Food Waste Assessment
Purpose
To provide new and potential FRC participants with
instructional material on how to conduct a food waste
assessment.
Objective
"What gets measured gets managed." - Peter Drucker
Define clear, measurable goals.

8. Materials: Guidebook Components
1. Develop Assessment Goals
2. Complete Pre-assessment Questionnaire
3. Plan the assessment process
4. Identify Logistics
5. Conducting assessment and collecting data
6. Analyze and report results
7. Resources
8. Appendix

9. Conducting a Food Waste Assessment
• Shortened version of the
guidebook
• Designed to be viewed in
collaborative team
environment
• Available soon at
www.epa.gov/foodrecovery
Materials: Narrated Slideshow

10. Details for Joining the FRC
1. Join the Food Recovery Challenge at https://connect.re-trac.com/register/epafrc
2. Set a baseline
• Assess it: Conduct an inventory of your food waste. Baseline data provides a starting
point for setting goals and tracking progress.
• Submit it Baseline data must be entered and submitted through the SMM Data
Management System within 90 days of registering for the Challenge.
3. Set a goal
• Choose Your Actions: prevention, donation, and composting
• Submit it: Baseline goal must be entered and submitted through the SMM Data
Management System within 90 days of registering for the Challenge.
4. Track it: Report annually
• Enter annual data and goal by March 31st each year
5. Get Recognized!
• Annual awards for outstanding participants

11. New England Institutions Honored for Food Waste Recycling Efforts on
America Recycles Day
Release Date: 11/15/2013
Contact Information: David Deegan, (617) 918-1017
(Boston, Mass. – Nov. 15, 2013) - In honor of America Recycles Day, two
colleges in Massachusetts and a senior living facility in Connecticut were
honored this week by EPA for their success in keeping extra food out of
landfills and getting it to people who are hungry. In addition, regional
achievement awards were given to 12 other organizations in three New
England states. EPA’s Food Recovery Challenge invites organizations
nationwide to reduce the amount of food they buy and throw out and to
divert surplus food to feed people, thus reducing their environmental
footprint. In New England, more than 50 stores, school, hotels,
restaurants, sporting venues and other businesses participate in the
challenge.
The University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Clark University in
Worcester, Mass. and the Orchards assisted living community in
Southington, Conn., were among the nine National 2013 winners of the
EPA’s Food Recovery Challenge…..

12. a
650+ Partners Nationally
http://www.epa.gov/smm/foodrecovery/participants.htm
Grocers-Venues-College/Universities-Hotels/Restaurants
Healthcare Facilities
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EPA Food Recovery Challenge

13. Contact Information
Janet Bowen
bowen.janet@epa.gov
(617) 918-1795
Christine Beling
beling.christine@epa.gov
(617) 918-1792
Join the Regional Food Recovery Challenge email group!