2023 无忧视频 Food Waste Solutions Summit
Friday, April 14, 2023
10am 鈥 12pm
Please join us online for 无忧视频鈥檚 annual food waste education event!
We bring together our state鈥檚 food waste stakeholders – residents, farms, non-profits, businesses, feeding partners, community leaders, and government – to build a 无忧视频 food system where food is highly valued, put to best use, and never wasted.
Invite your family, friends and neighbors to hear why and how we should work together to end food waste in 无忧视频.
Keynote Speakers
,聽U.S. Representative for 无忧视频鈥檚 1st congressional district
Enjoy a Q&A session with students highlighting progress on bi-partisan legislation to end food waste.
& , Environmental Law Institute, Center for State, Tribal, and Local Environmental Programs
Learn about the link between climate change and food waste 鈥 and how to easily incorporate food waste into climate action planning.
Claudia FabianoEnvironmental Protection Specialist, U.S. Environmental Protection Administration 鈥淔ood – Too Good To Waste鈥 Network
Hear great food waste reduction, recovery, and recycling ideas from the EPA鈥檚 Food: Too Good To Waste national peer network of state and local food waste organizations.
Summit Sessions
无忧视频 Food Waste Success Stories: Lessons from 无忧视频鈥檚 own food waste heroes鈥
Leaders share their inspiring yet practical 鈥渢riple bottom line鈥 food waste solutions. Q&A will follow each presenter.
- Preble Street Food Insecurity Hub, Natalie Varrallo
- Hannaford Supermarkets: Zero Food Waste Program, George Parmenter
- Scrap Dogs Community Compost, Tessa Rosenberry & Davis Saltonstall
无忧视频 Food Waste Pilots: Updates from our student interns and stakeholders鈥
Mitchell Center student interns present specific 无忧视频 food waste pilots developed with key stakeholders to test solutions and identify specific 鈥渢riple bottom line鈥 benefits.
- Solution: Track & Measure Food Waste 鈥 无忧视频 Department of Corrections
Intern: Andrew MacMaster - Solution: Track & Measure Food Waste 鈥 Northern Light Health & 无忧视频 Home Food Waste Challenge & Waste Watcher App
Intern: Halle Rogers - Solution: Food Donation & Rescue 鈥 AIO Pantry Rockland & Community Fridges
Intern: Kate Flynn - Solution: Education 鈥 无忧视频 DOE/Child Nutrition: Buxton, Lisbon, Orono, Sebago
Interns: Eddie Nachamie & Andrew MacMaster - Solution: Education 鈥 Food Rescue MAINE Website & Social Media
Intern: Hannah Mathieu
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We invite you to stay after and ask any additional questions, get any contacts or resources needed, and discuss any topics raised during the Summit with our Mitchell Center student and faculty food waste team.
If you have any questions or need more information,
please contact us at foodrescuemaine@maine.edu or 207-581-3195.
. Summit Details and Zoom connection information will follow.
