Comprehensive Fixes

• Diverse Food Waste Solutions: This edition of Green Gazette covers ways to limit food waste at all stages of the supply chain.
• Save Money and Resources by Reducing Food Waste: Learn how to reduce your food waste, save money, and preserve precious resources by shopping wisely, eating leftovers, and more.

Reduce: Preventing Excess Food

• Buy Bulk Food to Save Money on Groceries: “Buying-club households usually waste less food because their cooking habits become grounded in a pantry mentality: Meal planning begins with the goods already stocked at home.”

Reuse: Recipes and Methods for Diverting Unused Food

• Put Extra Food Scraps to Good Use in Your Kitchen: Reduce food waste by trying these kitchen tips and recipes for leftovers and turn your food scraps into exciting new dishes.
• Reducing Food Waste Through Legislation: A new food waste ban in Massachusetts requires certain businesses and institutions to donate, compost or produce energy with their organic food waste.
• Turn Food Scraps Into Poultry Feed: Give your chickens additional nutrition by balancing their rations with food and garden waste.
• 10 Recipes for Preserving Fruit and Vegetable Scraps: Go beyond cooking with your produce scraps by learning to preserve them for later use.
• Boulder Brings New Idea to Food Distribution: Boulder Food Rescue is a non-profit what is helping to redefine food waste in America where nearly 34 million tons of food is wasted annually.
• Salt-Preserved Citrus Skins Recipe: Use this simple recipe for citrus skins once the fruit has been juiced. All you need is salt, citrus peels and time.
• Kitchen Scrap Sauerkraut Recipe: Try this clever way of using vegetable scraps to make a delicious ferment that will cut down on waste and treat your gut to some healthy probiotics.
• Zero-Waste Tomato Powder: Work to reduce kitchen and food waste by dehydrating tomato skins and using the powder to add aroma and flavor to savory dishes. 
• Zero-Waste Peanut Pulp Crackers Recipe: Find out how to make use of what many would consider to be unusable kitchen scraps with this nutritious snack food recipe.
• Zero-Waste Carrot Powder Recipe: Read why this recipe’s creator holds the simple carrot in high esteem and makes such an effort to ensure no part of the root vegetable goes to waste.
• Fish Garum Recipe and a Note on Waste: Reduce food waste by creating your own fish sauce and get this seafood chef’s philosophy on food waste and sustainability.

Recycle: Composting Programs

• Dirt, Cheap: A Composting Business for the Community: A young Phoenix company has hit paydirt by recycling and reusing food waste to benefit consumers, businesses, the land — and the landfill.

Reader Contributions

• Global Initiative Helps Reduce Your ‘Foodprint’: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has started a global campaign to help reduce food waste worldwide.
• The Real Cost Of Food Waste: Learn about protections in place for those donating edible food, and things you can do in your own home to reduce food waste.
• Reduce Food Waste by Shopping Salvage Stores: Shop food-salvage stores to reduce corporate food waste and save money.
• 3 Ways to Reduce Food Waste: By planning, storing, and composting your food correctly, you can prevent waste.
• A Rind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste: Many factors can limit the ability to produce compost. These two products offer different but similarly practical ways to organically recycle food scraps.

Resources

• A Guide to Conducting Student Food Waste Audits: A Resource for Schools: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the University of Arkansas collaborated to create this guide for students and school personnel.
• Commission for Environmental Cooperation’s Food Matters Action Kit: Informative resources and activities for youth of all ages.
• Commission for Environmental Cooperation’s Why and How to Measure Food Loss and Waste: Seven steps for measuring food loss and waste within your business, city, state, or country.
• The Environmental Protection Agency’s Food Recovery Hierarchy: Prioritizes actions organizations can take to prevent and divert wasted food.
• Food Shift: A nonprofit focused on the recovery, redistribution, and processing of surplus food. Plus its kitchen provides training and jobs to individuals with barriers to employment.
• ReFED: A collaboration of 50-plus business, nonprofit, foundation, and government leaders committed to reducing food waste in the United States.
• ReFED’s Roadmap to Reduce U.S. Food Waste: A national economic study and action plan to reduce food waste at scale.
• Scraps: A Denver-based pedal-powered compost-pickup service.