THANK YOU ZERO FOOD WASTE FORUM SPONSORS!
GOLD Sponsors:
City of Napa and NRWS
San Mateo County
San Francisco Department of the Environment
StopWaste
SILVER Sponsor:
City of Fremont
BRONZE Sponsors:
City of Emeryville
City of Livermore
O2 Artisans Aggregate
Recyclist
We are pleased to announce the second Zero Food Waste Forum to be held October 16, 2018 in Berkeley, California, hosted by the Northern California Recycling Association and the Solid Waste Association of North America Gold Rush Chapter.
Check out the updated Program! No more seats are available at the Forum – please contact us if you have any questions.
We are promoting two side events related to the Zero Food Waste Forum:
Green Drinks after the Tech Showcase – October 16th – 5:30 to 8:30
SWANA Gold Rush Chapter and Zero Waste Youth USA invite you to Green Drinks. Please join the attendees of the Zero Food Waste Forum at Triple Rock Brewing, 1920 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley. A limited number of free drink tickets will be available.
Reducing Food Waste Movie Night + Panel Discussion + Book Signing – October 17th – 5:30 to 8:30
The Zero Food Waste Forum steering committee is promoting a special event in Alameda designed to coincide with the Zero Food Waste Forum. Community Action for a Sustainable Alameda (CASA), a community-based non-profit, is hosting a movie night, book signing, and panel discussion featuring former NRDC staff scientist Dana Gunders, San Francisco star chef Nick Balla of Bar Tartine, and Tara Duggan, James Beard award-winning journalist on Wednesday, October 17th in the Grand Ballroom at the Elks Lodge 2255 Santa Clara Avenue, Alameda 94501.
Many thanks to our Sponsors for making the Zero Food Waste Forum possible:
GOLD Sponsors:
City of Napa and NRWS
San Mateo County
San Francisco Department of the Environment
StopWaste
SILVER Sponsor:
City of Fremont
BRONZE Sponsors:
City of Emeryville
City of Livermore
O2 Artisans Aggregate
Recyclist
Summary of Altamont Wasted Food Grant 2017-18 – Expanding Capacity for Waste Food Reduction in Alameda County (pdf)
By Food Waste Reduction Committee Members, Susan Miller Davis, Infinite Table and Susan Blachman, Blachman Consulting
SB1383, signed by Governor Brown in 2016, requires reductions in short-lived climate pollutants, similar to the way AB32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, does for greenhouse gases. SB1383 specifically targets organic waste methane emissions.
CalRecycle is developing the regulatory language to support the following targets under SB1383: a 50 percent reduction in the level of statewide disposal of organic waste from the 2014 level by 2020; a 75 percent reduction in organic waste disposal by 2025; and the recovery of 20 percent or more of edible food that is currently being disposed for human consumption by 2025.
Since the bill’s passage, CalRecycle has been holding workshops on the regulatory language. The most recent workshops were held on May 7 & 8, 2018. The following is the Table of Contents of the May 2018 proposed regulations. For more information and documents., visit the CalRecycle Public Meeting Notice.
Article 1. Definitions Article 2. Landfill Disposal and Reductions in Landfill Disposal Article 3. Organic Waste Collection Services Article 4. Education and Outreach Article 5. Generators of Organic Waste Article 6. Biosolids Generated at a Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTW) Article 7. Regulation of Haulers Article 8. Cal-Green Building Standards Article 9. Locally Adopted Standards and Policies Article 10. Jurisdiction Edible Food Recovery Programs, Food Generators, and Food Recovery Article 11. Capacity Planning Article 12. Procurement of Recovered Organic Waste Products Article 13. Reporting Article 14. Enforcement Article 15. Enforcement Oversight by the Department Article 16. Penalties
SB1383 will require local governments to impose new levels of collection service for generators, develop new sources of organics recycling and edible food recovery capacity, and comply with new levels of state and local oversight. CalRecycle has received considerable feedback on the most recent draft, so we expect it to continue to be revised.
In 2019 CalRecycle will be networking, providing technical assistance, and developing tools, model ordinances, contracts, and case studies to support efforts at the local level to meet the organic waste reduction targets and comply with the regulatory requirements.
In the meantime, NCRA will be holding the Zero Food Waste Forum on October 16, 2018 in Berkeley focused on innovative ways local governments are implementing and can comply with Article 10, the edible food element.
A related bill, AB 1219, the California Good Samaritan Food Donation Act, adopted in 2017, should help with food recovery. It strengthens and expands liability protections for food donors. Among its provisions, the law requires health inspectors to educate businesses about the laws that exist to protect food donors from liability, which is the first time a state has done this. To assist health inspectors, staff at a number of non-profits (the Public Health Alliance of Southern California, the California Conference of the Directors of Environmental Health, and the Center for Climate Change and Health, with support from The California Endowment) produced the Safe Surplus Food Donation Toolkit, to educate food facilities about safe surplus food donation, including information on liability protections, state mandates, and safe surplus food donation practices. The Toolkit includes websites where food generators can find recipients of donated food.
If you know of any feeding organizations that are not included, please encourage them to get listed. They are: Sustainable America Feeding America and Ample Harvest
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The Northern California Recycling Association and Solid Waste Association of North American are hosting the 2018 Zero Food Waste Forum on World Food Day. Tuesday, October 16th, 2018 in Berkeley, CA. The Call For Papers is now open and ends June 15.
The Forum will help local jurisdictions comply with Senate Bill 1383, which requires California to reduce edible food going to landfills by 20% by 2025. The Forum will profile successful policies and programs in food waste prevention and reduction and edible food repurposing and recovery, highlight regional and statewide examples and provide a forum for “disruptive” approaches to reduce wasted food and feed hungry people. Interested in getting involved? If you are interested in serving on the committee or being a sponsor, contact the Committee.
