Publications
Publications from ELI's Food Waste Initiative
Food Waste Initiative Research Brief Series:
- An Overview of Multilingual Outreach, Translation, and Language Justice Resources
- Social Science Literature Review on Value of Measuring and Reporting on Food Waste
Project: Food Waste Co-Digestion at Water Resource Recovery Facilities: Business Case Analysis
Report and Toolkit:
Snapshots:
- East Bay Municipal Utility District CA
- Hermitage Municipal Authority PA
- Oneida County Water Pollution Control Plant NY
Case Studies:
- Central Marin Sanitation Agency CA
- Derry Township Municipal Authority PA
- Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts CA
- Stevens Point Public Utilities Department WI
Webinar and Articles:
- Innovations in Sourcing Food Scraps for Codigestion (Part I); Part II: Solid Waste Partners Drive WRRF Food Scrap Sourcing (Part II), (Biocycle, March 2021)
- Water Research Foundation webinar with Carol Jones, ELI; Mark McDannel, Sanitation Districts of LA County; and William Rehkop, Derry Township PA
- Successful Business Strategies for Codigestion at WRRFs (BioCycle, November/December 2019)
- Food Waste Co-digestion at Water Resource Recovery Facilities: Evaluating the business case can identify benefits to the triple-bottom-line (WE&T, March 2020)
Project: Nashville Food Waste Initiative
Reports:
- Model Ordinance on Mandatory Reporting for Large Food Waste Generators With Commentaries
- Model Ordinance on Mandatory Reporting for Large Food Waste Generators Without Commentaries
- Mandatory Reporting for Large Food Waste Generators: Background Memorandum
- Slide Deck for Model Ordinance on Mandatory Reporting for Large Food Waste Generators: ELI and NRDC can work with individual municipalities to customize this presentation upon request.
- A Toolkit for Incorporating Food Waste in Municipal Climate Action Plans
- Model Compost Procurement Policy With Commentaries
- Model Compost Procurement Policy Without Commentaries
- Slide Deck for Model Compost Procurement Policy: ELI and NRDC can work with individual municipalities to customize this presentation upon request.
- Mayor Cooper's Sustainability Advisory Committee 2021 Report on the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County's Climate Change Mitigation Action Plan
- Landscape Analysis of Community Composting in Nashville
- Landscape Analysis of Industrial, Commercial, and Institutional Food Scrap Recycling in Nashville
- Nashville Food Rescue Landscape Analysis
Webinars and Articles:
- Real Benefits Fostering Food Scrap Recycling (The Environmental Forum, May/June 2019)
- Co-sponsor and moderator of the Community Composting for Nashville Webinar Workshop Series:
- What, Why & How to Compost - An Introduction to the Basics & How to Engage - Community Composting for Nashville: Webinar Workshop Series, Part 1 (September 2020)
- How to Set Up a Community Compost Demonstration and Education Site - Community Composting for Nashville: Webinar Workshop Series, Part 2 (October 2020)
- How to Set Up a Pilot Community Composting Project to Receive Community Food Scraps - Community Composting for Nashville: Webinar Workshop Series, Part 3 (November 2020)
Reduce, Rescue, and Recycle: Other Publications
- State and Local Efforts to Divert Organic Waste Steadily Advance (The Environmental Forum, January/February 2022)
- Dialogue: Pollution Prevention and Rethinking "Waste" (Environmental Law Reporter, June 2019)
- Mulch Ado About Waste Handling: Community Composting Takes Off (The Environmental Forum, July/August 2018)
- New England Organics Disposal Bans and Processing Infrastructure (BioCycle, Sept. 2017)
- Reducing Disposable Plastic Bags in Food Stores and Other Outlets (The Environmental Forum, March/April 2017)
- Food Law Is the Next Great Area for Environmental Litigation (The Environmental Forum, January/February 2016)
- States, Cities Take on Food Waste (The Environmental Forum, March/April 2015)
Be sure to check out additional publications on our Partner Resources page.