Our 2023 webinar series from Food Waste Prevention Week partners provides incredible opportunities for learning and networking. Stakeholders from across the food industry and environmental action landscapes come together to learn from governmental, non-profit, and private industry presenters. All webinars are being presented free of charge.
April 4, 2023
"School Food Recovery: Inventory Management, Share Tables, Smarter Lunchrooms and Food Donations"
Presented by Florida Food Recovery Coalition
8:30am CST
April 7, 2023
"It's a Good Friday to Recover Food, Florida!"
Presented by Food Waste Prevention Week 2023
10-10:30am CST
April 10, 2023
Local Solutions to Prevent Food Waste
Presented by NRDC
Kick off Food Waste Prevention Week with a conversation on Local Solutions to Prevent Food Waste on Monday, April 10 at 1pm EDT/10am PDT. Featuring Food For the Soul, Hamilton County R3Source, Food Shift, and Alameda County StopWaste. These pairs of county recycling experts and food rescuers will talk about valuing food, ensuring good food gets eaten, and how they share their stories with the community.
12:00 noon CST
April 12, 2023
"School Food Recovery: Inventory Management, Share Tables, Smarter Lunchrooms and Food Donations"
Presented by Florida Food Recovery Coalition
1:00pm CST
April 10, 2023
Backyard Compost Workshop
Presented by Boulder County Resource Conservation
7-9pm CST
April 11, 2023
"Zero Food Waste at Large-scale Events"
Presented by Sustainable Events Network and Florida International University
2pm CST
April 12, 2023
"Food Rescue 101 for Commercial Kitchens"
Presented by Careit CEO, Alyson Schill
Zero-waste specialist and Careit CEO Alyson Schill takes restaurants, food-based nonprofits, institutions, and other kitchen staff on a journey of food waste in commercial food establishments. With this workshop, participants will learn: Why reducing food waste benefits businesses and communities; techniques to reduce food loss; successful food donation with Careit app; and how to compost the rest for healthy soils.
10-11am CST
April 12, 2023
"Seminar on U.S.-Mexico Border Sustainable Management of Food"
Join U.S. EPA Region 9 for a seminar on the sustainable management of food, in the context of the U.S.-México border. Celebrating Food Waste Prevention week, you’ll learn about food waste prevention, recovery and recycling strategies, policies and practices for and by border-adjacent communities.
Featuring:
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Antonia Andúgar Miñarro, Commission for Environmental Cooperation, on tri-national cooperative studies and tools; the cross-border example of food management
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Dr. Claudia Martínez Peralta, State of Sonora's Commission on Ecology & Sustainable Development, on energy use from organic waste: Sonora’s experience
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Ernesto Torres, founder of Compóstate Bien MXL, on composting and soil regeneration in Mexicali
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André Villaseñor, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, on the sustainable management of food
9:30am CST
April 12, 2023
"We Knead to Dough Better"
Presented by Sustainable Events Network Florida & Caribbean
This event will feature a live chef demo of international recipes for using leftover bread and spent grains.
5:15pm-6pm CST
April 14, 2023
"Maine Food Waste Solutions Summit"
Presented by Food Rescue MaineThe Maine Food Waste Solutions Summit is Maine’s major food waste event that brings together our state’s key food system participants—farms, food businesses, feeding partners, community leadership, government and nonprofit organizations—to focus on ending food waste in Maine. This year, we recognize the key role that individuals of all ages play. Only by engaging consumers and households can we return to a circular Maine food system where food is highly valued and never wasted. This vision for Maine’s food system will especially benefit individuals by lowering food costs and improving food access as well as by protecting valued natural resources – water, air, and climate!
Keynote Speakers:
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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, Maine First District Representative; She is developing new bipartisan legislation to help end food waste in the U.S.
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Linda Breggin, Environmental Law Institute
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Claudia Fabiano, U.S. Environmental Protection Administration and the “Food – Too Good To Waste” Network
9-11am CST