Sustainable Management of Food

Anaerobic Digestion
- EPA selected 11 recipients for funding in the Supporting Anaerobic Digestion in Communities Funding Opportunity!
- EPA is currently analyzing data for our fourth phase of the Anaerobic Digestion Data Collection Project
EPA Announces 2020 and 2021 Food Recovery Challenge Awardees
- Learn more about the award winners.
- Check out the EPA press release.
Climate and Environmental Impacts of U.S Food Waste

Check out EPA’s new report:
- From Farm to Kitchen: The Environmental Impacts of U.S. Food Waste
Federal Interagency Food Loss and Waste Collaboration

The U.S. EPA, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and U.S. Food and Drug Administration affirm their shared commitment to work towards the national goal of reducing food loss and waste by 50 percent by 2030.

Understanding the Issues

What Businesses and Organizations
Can Do

What Individuals and Communities Can Do

To learn more about the tiers of the hierarchy, click on the topic.

Food Recovery Hierarchy Triangle in Six Steps. Top (most preferred) to bottom (least preferred): Source Reduction, Feed Hungry People, Feed Animals, Industrial Uses, Composting, and Landfill/Incineration.

Listen to EPA Administrator Michael Regan speak about reducing food loss and waste.

EPA's Sustainable Materials Management (SMM) newsletter shares announcements and funding opportunities from EPA and our partners on the topics of food waste, recycling, municipal solid waste, and the built environment.

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Sustainable Management of Food

Anaerobic Digestion

EPA Announces 2020 and 2021 Food Recovery Challenge Awardees

Climate and Environmental Impacts of U.S Food Waste

Federal Interagency Food Loss and Waste Collaboration

Understanding the Issues

What Businesses and Organizations Can Do

What Individuals and Communities Can Do

What Businesses and Organizations
Can Do