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Sustainable Management of Food

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EPA Announces the 2017 Food Recovery Challenge Award Winners
- Find out who the 2017 National and Regional Award Winners are
- Read about how this year's winners achieved their successes
  - About the national winners
  - About the regional winners
Guide to Conducting Student Food Waste Audits
- Wondering how much food is wasted in your cafeteria and strategies to reduce it?
Wasted Food Programs and Resources Across the United States
- Find out about regional wasted food prevention and diversion efforts
Further With Food: Online Resource Center Launched
- Check out Further With Food Exit, an innovative online hub developed by EPA, USDA and 10 other prominent organizations providing key information and solutions to reduce food loss and waste.

Call to Action

Sustainable Management of Food

Understanding the Issues

What Businesses, Institutions and Other Organizations Can Do

What Individuals Can Do

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Food Recovery Hierarchy, food waste, composting, waste management, recycle, source reduction

To learn more about the tiers of the hierarchy,
click on the topic for each management strategy.

See what grocers and food banks are saying about the Food Recovery Challenge in this video.