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1 | USDA OAUIP Composting and Food Waste Reduction Projects 2020-2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2 | Fiscal Year | State/Territory | Entity Name | Project Purpose and Description | Federal Funding | |||||||||||||||||||||
3 | 2020 | AZ: Arizona | City Of Prescott | The city will collaborate with the Prescott Farmers Market, volunteers, restaurants, Yavapai County Cooperative Extension, and Prescott College to design, build and implement the Prescott Community Compost Program. The program will educate the community about composting, reduce food waste by collecting and composting restaurant food scraps, and provide high-quality compost to gardeners and farmers in Central Yavapai County. The program anticipates 28 tons of finished compost over the two-year program. | $ 71,831 | |||||||||||||||||||||
4 | 2020 | PA: Pennsylvania | City Of Philadelphia | Philadelphia Parks & Recreation (PPR) is in the process of launching the first of an envisioned coordinated system of small-scale urban food waste composting sites on city properties. A Sustainability Specialist will be responsible for directly overseeing the data collection and analysis, education and outreach, quality control and reporting for PPR’s food scrap composting program. This position will enable the food scrap composting program to achieve and sustain quality operation and to grow in subsequent years. | $ 90,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
5 | 2020 | IL: Illinois | County Of Lake | The project will develop a stronger, more vibrant circular economy for managing food scraps and other organic material. It includes a compost to farmland/community garden demonstration study, strengthening the community gardening network, market development for compost, and education efforts to increase participation rates in the commercial and residential sectors. | $ 90,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
6 | 2020 | CT: Connecticut | City Of New Haven | The project will bring together local organizations to expand community composting and growing local food. Goals include reducing food waste; generating high-quality compost to support urban agriculture and gardening in New Haven, and convening a Community Composting Collaborative to explore scaling up food waste composting. | $ 90,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
7 | 2020 | AR: Arkansas | City Of Fayetteville | The project will support the purchase and development of a mobile Food Waste Recovery Trailer that will be transported to events and festivals to collect food waste and educate residents. The City will provide residents with 3.5-gallon food waste containers for the home, allowing waste to be dropped off at several sites. An extensive food waste composting educational program will include a full-time educator to provide information, instruction, and advice on theories and methods of organic composting. | $ 73,870 | |||||||||||||||||||||
8 | 2020 | VA: Virginia | County Of Prince William | The Prince William County Department of Public Works Solid Waste Division (SWD) will work with project partners to implement a food waste composting pilot program for county schools and educate students on the environmental, economic, and social benefits of food waste composting. | $ 88,270 | |||||||||||||||||||||
9 | 2020 | KS: Kansas | County Of Douglas | The City of Lawrence Municipal Services & Operations will partner with Just Food on a food waste collection pilot to incorporate into its yard waste compost facility; establish a farm gleaning program to provide produce to clients of Just Food, Lawrence Community Shelter, and Sunrise Project; and encourage farmer and gardener access to the composting facility. | $ 89,997 | |||||||||||||||||||||
10 | 2020 | NY: New York | New York, City Of | DSNY will collaborate with nonprofit composting organization Big Reuse to establish 20 food scrap drop-off locations at community gardens, libraries, residential buildings, and nonprofits near their compost sites. NYC Parks Department will divert wood chips and leaves from landfill disposal. GreenThumb, Brooklyn Grange, Hellgate Farms, Gowanus Canal Conservancy, and other urban farms will distribute compost for food production in the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn. The project anticipates diverting 600,000 pounds of food scraps and green waste from landfills and providing 350 cubic yards of compost to food producers. | $ 90,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
11 | 2020 | AK: Alaska | Municipality Of Anchorage | The project includes a feasibility study and implementation plan for a municipal-scale composting operation at the Anchorage Regional Landfill, including an education campaign in partnership with the Alaska Food Policy Council, Alaska Waste, and Central Recycling Services. An additional 500 roll carts will be purchased with pick up service to increase composting. | $ 90,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
12 | 2020 | FL: Florida | City Of Gainesville | The project will implement a residential curbside food waste collection program, boost community composting efforts, and develop an overall local food waste strategy. Community outreach will include educational materials promoting the importance of food waste reduction, benefits of composting, and farm use of compost. | $ 50,895 | |||||||||||||||||||||
13 | 2020 | CO: Colorado | Boulder County | Boulder County and collaborating nonprofits Mad Agriculture (Mad Ag) and Zero Foodprint will create a more circular food economy in which restaurants and consumers provide funding to incentivize healthy soil and conservation practices. Under the “Restore Colorado” campaign, restaurants will be invited to collect an additional 1% fee from customer bills to fund regenerative farm projects. | $ 90,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
14 | 2020 | NJ: New Jersey | City Of Paterson | Project partners include the City of Paterson, the Paterson Public Schools, and the Rutgers University Cooperative Extension with support from the Center for EcoTechnology. This project will build on Extension’s environmental education within Paterson’s public schools. It seeks to increase composting by the students and staff of two public school buildings; eventually expanding to stakeholders, the entire school district, the City of Paterson, and local institutions that generate significant food waste. | $ 90,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
15 | 2020 | NC: North Carolina | County Of Henderson | The project will improve local infrastructure by expanding the public compost facility, increasing the lunchroom composting program to six additional schools, and starting a residential discounted compost bin program. | $ 90,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
16 | 2021 | VA: Virginia | City Of Richmond | The City of Richmond will establish a network of food scrap drop-off stations in collaboration with community gardens, libraries, businesses, and community organizations. These organizations will provide space to house containers where the public can contribute their food waste to this project, which will create compost for community gardens, community-led greening initiatives, and Workforce Training and Development landscaping projects in parks. Compost will be collected from sites on a weekly basis and brought to a central composting site in partnership with Parks’ Workforce Training and Development as well as the Department of Public Works. | $ 90,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
17 | 2021 | PA: Pennsylvania | City Of Philadelphia | Philadelphia Parks & Recreation (PPR) is in the process of launching the first of an envisioned coordinated system of small-scale urban food waste composting sites on city properties. A Sustainability Specialist will be responsible for directly overseeing the data collection and analysis, education and outreach, quality control and reporting for PPR’s food scrap composting program. This position will enable the food scrap composting program to achieve and sustain quality operation and to grow in subsequent years. | $ 90,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
18 | 2021 | HI: Hawaii/ Pacific Islands | City And County Of Honolulu | Collaboration between the City and County of Honolulu Office of Climate Change Sustainability and Resiliency, the Department of Environmental Services, Aloha Harvest, Sustainable Coastlines Hawaii, Zero Waste Oahu, and Supersistence consulting firm - as well as Chinatown businesses and agriculture and garden compost recipients to target the concentrated small food establishments in Chinatown, an area which has long struggled to address food waste as a well-recognized priority problem identified in community plans, and businesses that are not required to comply with local food waste laws. | $ 90,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
19 | 2021 | PA: Pennsylvania | City Of Pittsburgh | This project will identify a scalable solution to organic composting for internal city operations and test a multi-level alternative approach to curb-side composting as a method to handling residential organic waste and building soil that fortifies current networks of urban agriculture, community composting, and food waste processing businesses, rather than undercutting them. | $ 90,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
20 | 2021 | AK: Alaska | Kenai Peninsula Borough | This CCFWR Pilot Project entitled Kenia Peninsula Borough Community Compost & Food Waste Recovery Program seeks to reduce waste and costs by expanding the existing Community Compost program and model it for replication in other parts of the KPB. | $ 89,997 | |||||||||||||||||||||
21 | 2021 | CA: California | Blue Lake Rancheria Tribe Of California | This project will increase the quantity of waste diverted from landfills by adding Powers Creek Brewery and Honeycomb Coffee to the compost collection route. Compost produced will be used to amend the soil in Daluviwi’ Community Garden and provided for the community garden members and any tribal elders who request a compost delivery to amend their home gardens. | $ 45,196 | |||||||||||||||||||||
22 | 2021 | CT: Connecticut | City Of Stamford | The City of Stamford will establish a unique private-public partnership with the Stamford Museum & Nature Center to operate and manage a Composting Machine that is capable of processing 500lbs of food waste and turning it into useable compost which will reduce the amount of garbage the City of Stamford brings to landfills. | $ 45,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
23 | 2021 | TX: Texas | City Of Fort Worth | This project will expand the City of Fort Worth Residential Food Scraps Composting Pilot Program's infrastructure allowing the City to reach more residents, increase subscription numbers, and consequently increase the tonnage of food waste collected yearly and composted through the program. In addition, compost will be made more accessible to agricultural producers and community gardens by connecting producers of food waste and end users of organic material. | $ 90,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
24 | 2021 | NY: New York | City Of Troy | The City of Troy will collaborate with the Town of Bethlehem and local business, FoodScraps360, to gradually introduce food waste reduction practices to the residents of Troy. This project will actively engage residents through education and outreach efforts to achieve successful food waste reduction and recovery by addressing the components of the Sustainability Venn Diagram: Community, Environment, and Economy. | $ 88,425 | |||||||||||||||||||||
25 | 2021 | GA: Georgia | City Of Winterville | The City of Winterville will build six composting stalls to collect and process food excess and refuse from producers and local community members. Compost will be free to the producers who participate in the Marigold Market, Food Hub, and Commercial Kitchen (the Marigold Collective) as well as the Winterville Community Garden and other area residents. | $ 64,333 | |||||||||||||||||||||
26 | 2021 | CA: California | County Of Mariposa | This project will enable Mariposa County Solid Waste and Recycling (MSWR) to utilize the full capacity of their existing In-Vessel Composting System to generate composted materials, increase access of agricultural producers to composted material, reduce municipal food waste, divert food waste from landfills. | $ 75,300 | |||||||||||||||||||||
27 | 2021 | OR: Oregon | Douglas County | This project will divert hundreds of tons of food waste from the landfill annually and be the first organics collection and processing program of its kind in Douglas County, Oregon. The manufactured product worm castings will be provided for local agriculture and individual gardeners. Restaurants and other organizations will benefit by diverting their food waste out of the landfill, and Douglas County in collaboration with a local non-profit Source One Serenity will showcase innovative approaches for environmental stewardship in a rural area with limited resources. | $ 88,871 | |||||||||||||||||||||
28 | 2021 | CA: California | City Of Los Angeles/ Dept Of Public Works | The City of Los Angeles in collaboration with L.A. Sanitation and Environment and L.A. Compost and Kiss the Ground will be establishing a Farmers Market Food Waste Drop-off and Community Composting Program to collect food waste across 14 of LA’s 15 council districts. Food waste collection points will be established at community gardens, churches, parks and farmer’s markets, which will divert a significant amount of organic waste directly from households to local composting facilities. | $ 85,800 | |||||||||||||||||||||
29 | 2021 | ND: North Dakota | City Of Dickinson | The City of Dickinson will educate the public on proper soil amendment and soil health to help improve soils in the area while reducing organic waste going to the landfill. This project will provide a series of educational workshops and supplies to participants for composting their food scraps. Bins made from reused pallets will be available premade or for construction. | $ 66,224 | |||||||||||||||||||||
30 | 2021 | CA: California | Guadalupe- Coyote Resource Conservation District | This project will create a system of community-supported composting sites to intake organic waste and produce carbon-rich soil amendments which will increase access to finished compost for urban gardeners in underserved communities, locally-based food waste management solutions, community building opportunities, strengthen climate resilience from reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, and improve soil health. | $ 90,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
31 | 2021 | CT: Connecticut | City Of West Haven | The City of West Haven will partner with the local Council of Governments and Center for Eco-Technology to train West Haven and regional school administrators from three participating urban schools and one commissary kitchen in how and why to separate compostable organic waste from the schools. Further, the City will retain a commercial collection contractor to provide collection containers and collection services | $ 90,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
32 | 2021 | CT: Connecticut | Housatonic Resource Recovery | This project will demonstrate that municipalities can create a closed loop sustainable composting system to manage food waste locally, reducing the carbon footprint of offsite disposal and contributing to the waste diversion goals of the state, increase access to compost for residential, community garden groups and local farmers without relying on synthetic fertilizers and empower municipalities to use readily available compost for stormwater management and soil erosion. | $ 72,657 | |||||||||||||||||||||
33 | 2021 | OH: Ohio | City Of Cincinnati | This project will develop multiple small and medium scale (<500 sq/ft) decentralized community composting and food waste drop off sites across the City, utilizing city facilities, community gardens/orchards, and existing compost businesses/non-profit partners to collect vegetative food scraps and create compost to be utilized at multiple urban agriculture sites throughout the City and beyond. | $ 90,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
34 | 2021 | FL: Florida | City Of Tampa | The City of Tampa will partner with Suncoast Compost to double the number of designated drop-off composting sites from four to eight which will create composting opportunities for all residents regardless of whether they live in multi-family units or single-family homes. | $ 80,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
35 | 2021 | WI: Wisconsin | City Of Madison | This project will accelerate food waste reduction and meet the City goal to reduce food waste by 50% by 2030 through a community composting initiative and a commercial food waste initiative with restaurants, which both take a multi-sector approach and accelerate economic benefits to community farmers and commercial business owners. | $ 90,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
36 | 2021 | OH: Ohio | City Of Upper Arlington | The City of Upper Arlington will partner with GoZERO Services to pilot a weekly, curbside collection program for up to 500 households. Collected food waste material will be transported to the industrial compost facility where it is processed and sold back to local farmers and gardeners. GoZERO Services will provide the compost material to the City’s Parks & Forestry Division for inclusion in the city’s various parks, rain gardens, honeybee & butterfly habitats and during seasonal tree planting | $ 75,960 | |||||||||||||||||||||
37 | 2021 | TX: Texas | City Of Dallas | This project will reduce food waste and simultaneously provide compost to local community gardens. The compost produced will be made available and easily accessible to qualifying gardens through DCHHS’s Community Gardens Program. | $ 90,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
38 | 2021 | AK: Alaska | Yakutat Tlingit Tribe | The Yakutat Tlingit Tribe will provide a food scrap collection service and use the food scraps to create compost by using an in-vessel composter which has the capacity to process up to 1,100lbs of food waste on a weekly basis. YTT will develop a distribution system for a local market greenhouse and community gardeners to receive the finished compost and host several workshops to build the skills of community members to reduce wasted food and to create their own compost. | $ 89,995 | |||||||||||||||||||||
39 | 2021 | AZ: Arizona | City Of Phoenix | This project will roll out composting to two selected multi-family complexes and offer a learning opportunity for how to successfully market and educate residents on composting correctly. | $ 49,678 | |||||||||||||||||||||
40 | 2022 | MI: Michigan | Ishpeming, City Of | The goal of the project is to create a central composting facility within Marquette County that will benefit Ishpeming residents, institutions, and businesses throughout the county. | $ 300,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
41 | 2022 | GA: Georgia | East Point, City Of | Through this pilot program the City of East Point will establish a community food waste drop-off program for residents to divert food scraps. The food waste will be turned into compost to be used by underserved farmers and gardeners. | $ 54,500 | |||||||||||||||||||||
42 | 2022 | MD: Maryland | Greenbelt, City Of | The goal of the project is to demonstrate increased food waste recycling and processing capability in a more localized manner that will make the diversion of food waste from landfills more efficient, both environmentally and economically. | $ 266,754 | |||||||||||||||||||||
43 | 2022 | AZ: Arizona | Tucson Unified School District | The Tucson Unified School District Community Composting & Food Waste Reduction Pilot Project (TUSD CCFWRPP) will build the infrastructure needed to provide compost to school and community gardens, improve soil quality, reduce food waste, and demonstrate the economic benefits of including food reclamation education as an integral part of our school garden and nutrition programs for our students, their families and our community of Tucson and Pima County, Arizona | $ 263,627 | |||||||||||||||||||||
44 | 2022 | CO: Colorado | San Miguel, County Of | San Miguel County seeks funding to 1) establish and enhance the physical and social infrastructure for regional composting and food waste reduction 2) enhance and expand a sustainable economic framework to facilitate agricultural compost use, and 3) create a replicable model that addresses specific barriers encountered by rural and mountain towns and beyond. | $ 243,497 | |||||||||||||||||||||
45 | 2022 | MO: Missouri | City Of Springfield | Dish to Dirt aims to build upon established systems, functionality, and lessons learned to pilot a food waste drop off and composting program for citizens throughout Springfield, Missouri. | $ 286,100 | |||||||||||||||||||||
46 | 2022 | CO: Colorado | Glenwood Springs, City Of | The City of Glenwood Springs proposes to construct a new compost pad, fund educational programming to boost participation among area businesses, and create promotional materials to advertise sustainability efforts. | $ 300,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
47 | 2022 | MD: Maryland | Prince Georges, County Government | The main goal of the project is to institutionalize separate food waste disposal and collection at public schools in Prince George’s County in support of the operations of the County’s organic compost facility. | $ 50,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
48 | 2022 | WY: Wyoming | Teton, County Of | The primary goal of the Teton County ISWR “Curb to Compost Commercial Pilot Expansion” project is to remove 500 tons of food waste a year from the waste stream by February of 2025, moving Teton County closer to its goal for 60% diversion of all waste from the Teton County Landfill. | $ 300,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
49 | 2022 | MD: Maryland | Montgomery County, Maryland | The goal of the Edible Food Recovery Program is to measure, track, and report on the amount of edible food recovery potential and the amount that is recovered each year, and determine the fiscal and economic impact to achieve an edible food recovery mandate. | $ 175,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
50 | 2022 | CA: California | Los Angeles, City Of | The LAX On-site Composting & Food Waste Reduction Pilot Program (LAX CFWR) is centered on the goal of the implementation of a closed loop on-site composting solution that would integrate collection and processing of all organic waste generated at LAX in collaboration with airport partners and the local community. | $ 300,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
51 | 2022 | FL: Florida | City Of Deerfield Beach | The City of Deerfield Beach is proposing a pilot organics collection and compost giveback program. The intention of the pilot program is to explore the effectiveness and viability of a municipal compost collection pilot in Deerfield Beach while engaging underprivileged communities in food security, gardening and composting. | $ 300,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
52 | 2022 | MI: Michigan | City Of Traverse City | The overarching goal of the proposed project is to firmly establish a sustaining regional example of effective food waste diversion and compost production through a pilot project working within Traverse City’s Department of Public Services. | $ 255,396 | |||||||||||||||||||||
53 | 2022 | TN: Tennessee | Knoxville, City Of | The Knoxville Compost Project is a comprehensive, multi-scale community composting program for residents, businesses, and nonprofits in Knoxville. The Project will provide outlets, supplies, education, and—most importantly—ongoing support for three different scales of composting. | $ 89,270 | |||||||||||||||||||||
54 | 2022 | NY: New York | Seneca Nation Of Indians | The overarching goal of the project is to redirect food and water waste from landfills/sewage to be utilized by Gakwi:yo:h Farms as organic fertilizer. | $ 105,660 | |||||||||||||||||||||
55 | 2022 | MD: Maryland | Edmonston, Town Of | This project seeks to initiate a food scrap collection pilot project in Prince George’s County, Maryland. The project will strengthen and expand on-farm composting capability in the county, and decrease the volume of food scraps in landfills. It will also provide an example of a small-scale and manageable “Compost Outpost” that will produce food-production quality compost. | $ 279,031 | |||||||||||||||||||||
56 | 2022 | NY: New York | Town Of Geneva | The Geneva Composting and Food Waste Diversion Collaboration will involve a variety of partners to improve the environmental justice profile of Geneva through diverting food waste and other biodegradables from the waste stream, generating nutrient-rich compost, improving soil quality, reducing reliance on fertilizers, and engaging in food recovery efforts that take “extra” food and gets it into the hands of community members in need. | $ 149,900 | |||||||||||||||||||||
57 | 2022 | MA: Massachusetts | Boston, City Of | The primary goal of this project is to secure a permitted site in the City of Boston with the capacity to take all of the city’s food scraps and soiled paper. Planning activities include selecting the preferred food waste recycling technology, completing the local zoning approval process, and obtaining state building and public health permits. | $ 90,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
58 | 2022 | WI: Wisconsin | Eau Claire, County Of | This project seeks to reduce food waste entering the landfill by expanding composting and food salvaging opportunities in order to extend the life of the landfill, improve the quality of local soil, and increase food security. This goal will be achieved through initiatives in public education, waste diversion in schools, residential composting, and supplying compost to the community. | $ 50,150 | |||||||||||||||||||||
59 | 2022 | VA: Virginia | Alexandria, City Of | The City of Alexandria is requesting funding for its opt-in Subsidized Curbside Food Waste Composting Pilot project. | $ 300,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
60 | 2022 | CT: Connecticut | Housatonic Resource Recovery | The overall objective of this project is to demonstrate that municipalities can create a closed loop sustainable composting system to manage food waste locally, reducing the carbon footprint of offsite disposal and contributing to the waste diversion goals of the state. This project will increase access to compost for residential, community garden groups and local farmers without relying on synthetic fertilizers and empower municipalities to use readily available compost for stormwater management and soil erosion. | $ 43,094 | |||||||||||||||||||||
61 | 2022 | NJ: New Jersey | Newton, Town Of | Establish the Newton Composting Program, which is a new program that will provide food waste collection opportunities that will generate compost that will be utilized throughout the community. The Newton Composting Program will include a collaborative effort between the Town, public school system, a community college, residents, a nonprofit organization, and a local business to collect and generate food waste into compost. | $ 169,977 | |||||||||||||||||||||
62 | 2022 | TX: Texas | Frisco, City Of | Implement a community compost demonstration project to support households that do not have the resources (funds, space, or knowledge) to compost. For those with an interest in composting at home, this project wil support those folks with technical assistance and supplying supplemental wood chips for a healthy compost pile. | $ 55,750 | |||||||||||||||||||||
63 | 2022 | FL: Florida | Hernando, County Of | Produce compost to aid local soils in the retention of moisture and nutrients, make the compost available to local agricultural producers, and simultaneously reduce the amount of material landfilled annually. | $ 291,390 | |||||||||||||||||||||
64 | 2022 | FL: Florida | School Board Of Orange County Florida | Implement a food recovery and food compost program to reduce landfill waste by 40% through food recovery and a food composting program to illustrate the need for these programs and how these programs can be adopted district-wide following a two-year food recovery and composting program. | $ 157,416 | |||||||||||||||||||||
65 | 2022 | KY: Kentucky | Louisville & Jefferson County Metropolitan Sewer District | Creating grade A compost that will be available to the region at no cost. Regionally produced compost will assist urban farmers and gardeners in growing nutrient rich food in an urban food desert, reduce need for imported fertilizers, save utility fleet gasoline by reducing the quantity of trips to regional landfill sites, reduce the cost of landfill disposal for utilities, and provide compost to community gardens which benefit residents who are disproportionally impoverished and lack access to healthy, fresh foods. | $ 300,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
66 | 2022 | HI: Hawaii/ Pacific Islands | Honolulu, City & County Of | Develop and test strategies for planning and implementing municipal compost plans and food waste reduction plans through the expansion of composting and food reduction practices in Hawaii Department of Education (HIDOE). This project will capitalize on the state’s largest source of preventable food waste (HIDOE) and further develop the educational component of on-site, school-based composting curriculum. | $ 296,128 | |||||||||||||||||||||
67 | 2022 | MD: Maryland | Baltimore, City Of | The overarching goal of the Baltimore Comprehensive Composting Pilot is to increase Baltimore City residents’ and communities’ access to composting and food waste reduction opportunities by removing longstanding educational, social, and economic barriers. They will host composting workshops, expand food scrap drop-off sites, and partner with food rescue organizations. | $ 168,274 | |||||||||||||||||||||
68 | 2022 | MO: Missouri | City Of Kansas City | Implement the Kansas City Neighborhood Compost Pilot Program. The Kansas City Neighborhood Compost Program will create 1,000 new composters in the first year and will reduce waste taken to landfills by 1% in its first 24 months. | $ 300,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
69 | 2022 | WI: Wisconsin | Village Of Egg Harbor | Help the village improve infrastructure and systems to grow its compost program to serve communities throughout the peninsula including one of the central schools, a number of the restaurants, and residents. In addition, this grant partners with area for profit and nonprofit businesses to create a network that connects residents to farmers. | $ 84,225 | |||||||||||||||||||||
70 | 2022 | MD: Maryland | City Of Frederick | Residential Compost Pilot Expansion project will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase organics recovery, reduce reusable materials going to landfill, support local businesses, generate finished compost for local use, and reduce costs associated with transportation of the material. | $ 200,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
71 | 2022 | CA: California | Sonoma, County Of | Zero Waste Sonoma will expand existing collaborations with Zero Foodprint (ZFP) to scale, coordinate, and optimize scaling carbon sequestration projects in coordination with SB1383 implementation strategy, including the expected increase of 10,000 tons of compost created per year. Increase access to compost for agricultural producers, reduce reliance on fertilizer, improve soil quality, increase rainwater absorption, reduce municipal food waste, decrease food insecurity, and engage businesses in zero waste and circular economy. | $ 298,500 | |||||||||||||||||||||
72 | 2022 | IA: Iowa | City Of Decorah | Comprehensive community composting pilot project that will include collaborating with local and regional partners to achieve the over-arching goal of increasing the amount of residential and commercial food waste that is diverted away from the Winneshiek County Landfill. | $ 84,826 | |||||||||||||||||||||
73 | 2022 | NC: North Carolina | New Hanover County | Hire full-time personnel to expand upon its existing work Friends of the New Hanover County Arboretum to manage the Garbage to Gardens program in public school lunchroom food waste diversion, growing the program from two schools to sixteen. Data will be collected to perform a cost benefit analysis to determine the savings realized from implementing food waste diversion strategies. | $ 180,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
74 | 2022 | CO: Colorado | City Of Grand Junction | Demonstrate the need for food waste processing at the local compost facility by establishing an organic waste collection route with a temporary composting outlet that is within 100 miles of the County, the program will create the density and demand needed to show the economic benefits of accepting more materials at the local facility. | $ 89,600 | |||||||||||||||||||||
75 | 2022 | IL: Illinois | Village Of Broadview | The C4 Composting Initiative is designed to support three BIPOC and low-to-moderate (LMI) communities in West Cook County, Illinois through establishing residential curbside food scrap diversion programs. They will also integrate the initiative within the Seven Generations Ahead (SGA) Zero Waste Schools program which will incorporate food scrap diversion systems within schools and establish food recovery protocols toward significantly reducing food waste and returning finished compost back into the communities for use in school and community gardens and landscaping. | $ 299,437 | |||||||||||||||||||||
76 | 2022 | RI: Rhode Island | City Of Providence, Rhode Island | The project will subsidize training and supplies for backyard composting, developing a public education campaign focused on the benefits of food waste diversion and that drives participation in locally available food waste diversion services (e.g. drop-off locations, collection services), supporting training at and development of new food waste drop off sites, implementing food waste diversion programs in four public school cafeterias, and implementing a food waste diversion program at Bucklin Prep Kitchen. The project targets city residents, public schools, and Bucklin Kitchen, the school district’s meal prep site and will divert food waste from the landfill annually. | $ 255,850 | |||||||||||||||||||||
77 | 2022 | WA: Washington | City Of Leavenworth | Primarily focus on waste ‘recovery’ through commercial composting. Other aspects of food waste reduction will be addressed through outreach efforts and community partnerships. Two primary tasks; education/outreach (in partnership with Waste Loop nonprofit) and the collection/hauling (in partnership with Winton Manufacturing, Compost Works) of organic waste. The target population of the project is the greater Leavenworth community, encompassing the geographic area of the Cascade School District which includes the cities of Leavenworth, Plain & Peshastin. | $ 297,666 | |||||||||||||||||||||
78 | 2022 | WV: West Virginia | City Of Clarksburg | Sustain the current municipal compost service and expand agricultural community engagement through educational opportunities for residents, community gardens, and community groups. In partnership with the West Virginia University Extension, we will introduce compost and food waste reduction practices to the residents of Clarksburg through a seminar series on composting and master gardening in addition to the dissemination of compost bins and pails. | $ 283,859 | |||||||||||||||||||||
79 | 2022 | AK: Alaska | Central Council Tlingit And Haida Indian Tribes Of Alaska | Pilot composting program to operate in conjunction with the Tribe's newly constructed Taay Hít Greenhouse in Juneau that is already generating fresh produce for its tribal citizens. The integrated composting and greenhouse program design is supported by Tlingit & Haida's Climate Change Adaptation Plan and Climate Change Action Plan which identify food security as community greenhouse projects as priorities. Tlingit & Haida first incorporated agricultural science into greenhouse operation by using the best growing practices to maximize sustainable food production and recently completed our first harvest from the Taay Hít Greenhouse, serving community elders a curry soup featuring bok choi, kale and cilantro. | $ 300,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
80 | 2022 | AK: Alaska | Fairbanks Soil & Water Conservation District | A free backyard composting program, distribution of educational materials, and various workshops to appeal to any compost beginners. Students are a target audience. The project includes compost lessons in afterschool programs at Title 1 schools and a compost tea project in partnership with the Silent Springs FFA. | $ 217,672 | |||||||||||||||||||||
81 | 2022 | GA: Georgia | City Of Atlanta | Provide publicly accessible community-compost education & training led by national and local community-compost leaders, including creating an Atlanta Community Composting Plan to introduce innovative solutions that incorporate participation from industries such as restaurant & hospitality and other businesses. Enhance existing local community-based composting by increasing compost production and carbon sequestration on farm, community garden, and neighborhood scale food production sites and strengthen operations of the Truly Living Well Community Composting Lab, a regional EPA & ILSR supported farm-scale operation focused on engaging, educating and employing the local community in compost operations. | $ 257,300 | |||||||||||||||||||||
82 | 2022 | PR: Puerto Rico/Caribbean | Municipality Of Isabela | Integrate an online and practical educational program consisting of courses and workshops addressing reducing waste, recycling, the fundamental principles of Permaculture, food preservation, and community composting for a healthier planet. Through the implementation of this project, the Municipality will continue taking the necessary steps to reestablish the operation of its landfill and benefit from resulting cost savings. | $ 300,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
83 | 2022 | PA: Pennsylvania | Haverford Township | Prepare for the addition of a township-wide opt-in curbside composting waste stream as part of municipal trash collection that requires both educational and technical assistance. While focusing on the diversion of food waste from destructive waste by partnering with established curbside compost pick-up servicers to redirect residential and municipal food waste to a local commercial industrial composting facility that already has an established business model supplying its compost to agricultural producers, schools, community gardeners, and community members. | $ 88,848 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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