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Draft National Strategy for Reducing Food Loss and Waste and Recycling Organics

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Center for Biological Diversity filed 2 comments on this docket between Feb 7, 2024 and Feb 9, 2024. 63 other organizations filed here. The comment window closed 906d ago.

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Feb 9, 2024· Mass Comment Campaign sponsored by Center for Biological Diversity (CBD). Sample attached (web)· EPA-HQ-OLEM-2022-0415-0362

Nearly 40% of food produced in the United States is never eaten. That means all the land, water, pesticides and energy that went into producing that food were also wasted. And excess food dumped in landfills adds to climate-warming methane pollution as it decays, compounding agriculture's harm to the planet. In December the Biden administration released the Draft National Strategy for Reducing Food Loss and Waste and Recycling Organics, an important first step in tackling food waste. While the strategy includes preventative measures, like educating shoppers and food-service providers on waste prevention, it doesn't specify how the agencies plan to rein in the unnecessary overproduction of food. That's a major oversight, argues Mark Rifkin, the Center's senior food and agriculture policy specialist, in an op-ed in The Baltimore Sun. "Unless we prevent it at the source," he says, "food waste will continue to contribute to agriculture emissions and waste land and water that desperately need conservation."

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Feb 7, 2024· Comment submitted by Center for Biological Diversity et al.· EPA-HQ-OLEM-2022-0415-0143

See attached. First document is comment. Second and third documents are referenced within the comment.

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Abstract

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have developed the Draft National Strategy for Reducing Food Loss and Waste and Recycling Organics (“draft Strategy”) to help prevent the loss and waste of food, where possible, and increase recycling of food and other organic materials. The draft Strategy identifies concrete steps, and complementary EPA, USDA, and FDA actions, that will help accelerate the prevention of food loss and waste, where possible, and recycling of the remainder with other organic waste, across the entire supply chain. The actions detailed in this draft Strategy will help the U.S. meet its National Food Loss and Waste Reduction Goal to halve food loss and waste; contribute to reaching the National Recycling Goal to achieve a 50 percent recycling rate by 2030; and contribute to global achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal Target 12.3. Preventing food loss and waste and recycling food and other organic waste will also reduce landfill methane emissions, in support of the U.S. Methane Emissions Reduction Action Plan, which identified food waste prevention and organic waste diversion as the top two methane emissions reduction strategies for municipal solid waste.

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