Food Matters project at NRDC partners with cities (Denver and Baltimore) to reduce food waste through comprehensive policies and programs. The program toolkit provides cities and other partners with an understanding of policies and program options for effective and feasible waste reduction divided into four sections: rethink, reduce, rescue, and recycle.
Food rescue, DEQ's Materials Management program: The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has identified wasted food prevention as a priority for Oregon state due to food environmental burdens. The DEQ has prepared a series of documents regarding environmental footprints of a variety of food, as well as an 'Strategy for Preventing the Wasting of Food', which identifies nine projects that have been considered relevant for locally adresing this issue.
The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF) Wasted Food Project aims to generate evidence that contributes to reducing food waste across the food system. Projects have been carried at the local, national, and international levels.
FoodPlus|Detroit enables projects designed to facilitate connectedness through multi-stakeholder engagement focusing on innovating and emerging food/agriculture work. The Waste to Resources program: Commercial Community-based Compost Facility Network aims to develop a distributed network of compost facilities to process food waste into products for agricultural and other purposes.
The Urban Food Systems in Flint, Michigan: Identifying Leverage Points is a community-based project by the Community Foundation of Greater Flint (CFGF) and Michigan State that examines the local production, distribution, access, consumption and waste of food.