{"id":27059,"date":"2025-10-20T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/?post_type=article&p=27059"},"modified":"2025-10-20T09:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:00:15","slug":"community-composters-epa-excess-food-map","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/es\/article\/composting-for-community\/community-composters-epa-excess-food-map","title":{"rendered":"M\u00e1s de 450 compostadores comunitarios se suman al mapa de oportunidades para el exceso de alimentos de la EPA"},"template":"","class_list":["post-27059","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_type-article","article_type-charts-graphs","initiatives-composting-for-community","topics-community-composting","topics-zero-waste","impact_areas-food-security","authors-jordan-ashby"],"acf":{"details":{"featured_image":27060,"background_color":"tan","article_type":[134,30],"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":[42,121],"impact_areas":[18],"abstract":"ILSR collaborated with the EPA to include 483 community composting sites on their Excess Food Opportunities Map (EFOM).","authors_tax":[598]},"sidebar":{"title":"\u00cdndice"},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"The newest update to the EPA\u2019s Excess Food Opportunities Map adds over 450 community composters, further solidifying local composters as key agents in the effort to divert wasted food. <\/strong>\r\n\r\nThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released the newest version of the Excess Food Opportunities Map (EFOM). With almost a million data points, this interactive map supports a nationwide effort to divert excess food from landfills and incineration facilities.\r\n\r\nILSR collaborated with the EPA to include 483 community composting sites in the most recent update, including the over 400 member organizations of our Community Composting Coalition.<\/a>\u00a0 Now, map users can find these sites included in the \u201ccomposting facilities\u201d layer of the map.\r\n

EXPLORE THE MAP<\/a><\/p>\r\nYou can also explore ILSR's Composting for Community Map<\/a>, which provides an interactive illustration of how communities pursue locally based composting capacity and enterprises, and how states help or hinder the growth of local programs. This map includes the 483 sites that have now been integrated into the EPA's EFOM.","":null,"settings":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"

Map Purpose and Highlights<\/h2>\r\nThis resource aims to increase public knowledge related to sources of excess wasted food across industrial, commercial, and institutional sectors, as well as highlight alternative destinations for predicted waste.\r\n\r\nAdditionally, the EFOM helps users understand excess food as a resource that can be intentionally redirected through the lens of environmental justice, food access, and food assistance programming. The map can further be used to identify gaps in infrastructure and guide excess food management decisions at the local level.\r\n\r\nPrimarily, the Excess Food Opportunities Map calls attention to over 900,000 generators of estimated excess food. These generators include:\r\n