{"id":20681,"date":"2024-06-24T07:03:08","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T11:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/?post_type=article&p=20681"},"modified":"2025-11-10T13:02:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T18:02:12","slug":"decentralized-composting-in-white-house-strategy-to-reduce-lost-and-wasted-food","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/es\/article\/composting-for-community\/decentralized-composting-in-white-house-strategy-to-reduce-lost-and-wasted-food","title":{"rendered":"New Wins for Decentralized Composting in White House Strategy to Reduce Lost and Wasted Food"},"template":"","class_list":["post-20681","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_type-article","initiatives-composting-for-community","topics-agriculture","topics-climate-change","topics-community-composting","topics-zero-waste","impact_areas-climate-and-environmental-justice","impact_areas-food-security","authors-julia-spector"],"acf":{"details":{"featured_image":20736,"background_color":"tan","article_type":[134],"initiative":15,"display_event_fields":false,"start_date":null,"end_date":null,"start_time":null,"end_time":null,"time_zone":"America\/New_York","virtual_event":false,"location":"","topics":[50,62,42,121],"impact_areas":[18,16],"abstract":"ILSR celebrates the Biden-Harris Administration\u2019s National Strategy for Reducing Food Loss and Waste and Recycling Organics. ","authors_tax":[624]},"sidebar":{"title":"\u00cdndice"},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"The Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) celebrates the Biden-Harris Administration\u2019s <\/span>National Strategy for Reducing Food Loss and Waste and Recycling Organics<\/span><\/a>, the most recent development in federal efforts to \u201cbuild a more circular economy for all.\u201d The Strategy details action steps to <\/span>reduce food loss and waste by 50% by 2030<\/span><\/a> through preventative measures, increased organics recycling, and supportive policies.<\/span>\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_20682\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"232\"]\"\"<\/a> Download Here<\/a>[\/caption]\r\n\r\nThe Strategy\u2019s mission is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, cut costs for Americans, and build cleaner, healthier communities. It offers a blueprint for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to optimize historic<\/a> funding<\/a> opportunities<\/a> and build on existing stakeholder efforts. The Strategy follows a series<\/a> of federal<\/a> advancements<\/a> connecting food, waste, and climate systems and progressing toward national and global recycling<\/a>, waste<\/a>, and methane<\/a> reduction<\/a> goals.","":null,"settings":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"ILSR is encouraged to see the federal government\u2019s growing recognition and continued elevation of composting as a solution imperative to tackling climate change, building equitable communities, and fighting environmental injustices. <\/span>Most notably, we applaud the inclusion of decentralized organics recycling in the Strategy as a priority solution with abundant community benefits. <\/b>The Strategy\u2019s targeted support of decentralized composting through funding and policy solutions is crucial to meeting waste diversion, climate, and food security goals. <\/span>\r\n
\u201cEnhance support to advance de-centralized (i.e., community-scale, on-farm and home composting) organics recycling, with emphasis on Tribal communities and communities with environmental justice concerns, allowing all communities to benefit\u2014 economically and environmentally\u2014from certain types of organics recycling efforts.\u201d - Objective 3-C, National Strategy for Reducing Food Loss and Waste and Recycling Organics<\/span><\/i><\/blockquote>\r\nILSR submitted recommendations to strengthen a draft version of the Strategy during the public comment period in February 2024. More than 10,000 comments, including 337 unique comments, were submitted by private individuals, industry, non-profit organizations, and more. <\/span>Recommendations from ILSR and allies are now reflected as action steps in the final version of the National Strategy, including:<\/b>\r\n