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Managing Food Waste - Materials Management Plans This template is intended to support counties, cities, villages, and townships (CVTs) in developing a plan to manage food waste as part of the required materials management plans (MMP). The template is broken into the following tabs:
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1) County - This tab has the template for Counties to use to create their food waste management plans for the MMP. This should be used to support MMP goals related to food waste and create an action plan to achieve those goals.
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2) CVTs - This tab has a template for cities, villages, and townships to use to create their food waste management plans. Reaching the County's MMP goals will require CVTs to develop and implement food waste reduction strategies, therefore, this template supports implementation of the County's goals. The County should provide this template to its CVTs to support them in considering how they can contribute to the County's food waste reduction goals.
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The template is inteded to walk municipalities through the process of creating a food waste management plan. The first section, determining baseline waste and costs, is a critical focus area to complete so that tracking and measuring can be done. The strategies in the remaining focus areas can be picked and chosen from, however, it will likely be very difficult to reach the County's goal for food waste reduction if some sort of diversion program is not in place. Counties should encourage CVTs to create their own food waste reduction plans from the MMPs and commit to specific actions that will support the County's goals. Which actions to take should be considered using the information in columns B (description), C (cost), and I (resources) as well as the resources available in the community and compatibility between the strategy and community character, values, and experience. Strategies highlighted in green are those that are easiest to implement while also being effective in reducing food waste.
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Once strategies have been identified, more specific objectives (targets, goals) for the strategy should be noted (Column D), along with a timeline for completion (Column E). Determining how progress on the strategy will be measured should also be noted (column F) and who's responsible for implementing the strategy and measuring/reporting on it. The "Data Tracker" tab of this template provides an outline of how a more detailed action plan could be structured.
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If you have any questions, suggestions for this template, or general food waste inquiries, please contact Make Food Not Waste at info@makefoodnotwaste.org.
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