Expanding Pennsylvania’s Wasted Food Solutions: A Collaborative Effort by CET
CET is working to share information and lend experience to build capacity for diverting wasted food in Pennsylvania. This work is focused in the greater Philadelphia area, where CET has partnered with the City of Philadelphia, Philabundance, and others as the City implements its Zero Waste Plan and Food Waste Business Challenge.
To learn more about CET’s work in Philadelphia and to get involved, contact CET today at 888-813-8552 or e-mail wastedfood@cetonline.org.
CET Wasted Food Resources · Philadelphia
CET worked with the Philadelphia Zero Waste and Litter Cabinet, The Office of Sustainability, and other local partners – food rescue organizations, haulers, composters, and food businesses – to help foster prevention and recovery activity, and to uncover local, notable examples. With support from the Claneil Foundation, CET focused on catalyzing food waste prevention and recovery activity. To document this work, CET spearheaded the Food Waste Business Challenge and created Wasted Food Solutions: Spotlights from Philadelphia to highlight a few inspiring examples of commercial entities and institutions preventing and recovering food waste in the city. The participating businesses worked directly with us to identify how and when food waste is created, identify goals to target this waste, and implement a comprehensive strategy to reduce, repurpose, and divert wasted food.
EPA Wasted Food Scale
CET utilizes the EPA’s Wasted Food Scale as a guiding tool to assist businesses, including restaurants, universities, colleges, event organizers, supermarkets, churches, etc. Discover relevant and partner resources on how to reduce the environmental impact of wasted food in your business across the scale
