Help your city move beyond food waste
Insights and best practice case studies on how cities across the globe are addressing food waste
Haven’s: A Zero Waste Kitchen in New York
Restaurants and cafes are known to be massive generators of food waste. It’s just part and parcel of running a food service business, right? But it doesn’t have to be, as Chef David from Haven’s Kitchen explained during a live cooking demonstration at the ISWA World Congress in Baltimore.
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Malmo: Communication at the Heart of Food Waste Recycling
Malmö is a Swedish city with an impressive food waste recycling program underpinned by an award-winning communications campaign.
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C40 helping cities tackle climate change with food waste management
Cities are where the future happens first. C40 is focused on tackling climate change, and a key strategy is supporting cities to reduce their food waste.
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The Big Apple Takes on Food Waste
New York City is tackling organic waste to reduce their impact on climate change. Curbside organic waste collection started as a pilot in 2012 and is now rolled out to 3.3 million city residents.
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Food waste reduction and recycling: a solution to the World’s phosphorus crisis
Cities are an important player to solve the World’s phosphorus crisis. They should become an urban mine from waste water and food waste, and make the chain of phosphorus circular.
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Milan Achieves World-class Separate Food Waste Collection
Milan is a densely populated city home to 1.3 million inhabitants with a high performing household food waste collection program that collects about 1.3 kg of food waste per person per week, which is well above levels of recycling in most cities around the World.
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Food Waste: a Market Failure to be Solved by Cities?
Cities face many challenges each day with limited resources available. Is food waste an issue governments, and more in specific cities, should even consider to tackle?
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How San Francisco Achieved a High Performing Food Waste Composting Program
San Francisco on the 5 keys to success behind their high-performing food waste composting program.
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Start a home composting revolution with Facebook and worm farms like Sao Paulo
What started as a trial rolled out to 2,000 families, flourished into a self-sustaining and evolving group of home composters supported by an active online community (via Facebook).
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