Project Grant NR233A750005C025

The City of Cincinnati is implementing the Cincinnati Food Waste Reduction and Composting Project (CFWRCP), a Cooperative Agreement award of $499,999 from the USDA's Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production grant program (CFDA 10.935). The project aims to divert food waste from landfills and create community compost sites across the city. Key activities include preventing food waste, supporting local food rescue/transformation, and establishing 40 small-scale composting sites. The project...

This Project Grant award of $90,500 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Source Reduction Assistance (CFDA 66.717) program provides funding to Perpetual Use Inc. to work with the City of Savannah, Georgia on a city-scale reusable food ware system. The project aims to reduce pollution at the source and improve community resilience and sustainability. Key activities include providing technical assistance for system set-up, hands-on support for system launch, and support...

This Cooperative Agreement award, totaling $426,201, was provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service under the Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production (CFDA 10.935) program. The purpose of the award is to develop a robust residential composting program in Cleveland, Ohio to reduce the city's 68,000 tons of annual food waste sent to landfills. Key components of the two-year pilot program include establishing community composting drop-off services,...

The Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska received a $500,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production (UAIP) grant program. The purpose of the project is to develop a system for Anchorage to divert more organic waste from the landfill, which has less than 40 years of useful life remaining. The project will focus on working with commercial kitchens and large food waste generators to purchase and deploy commercial dehydrators....

This Cooperative Agreement award of $342,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production program (CFDA 10.935) will support Beaufort County, South Carolina in establishing a food waste diversion and composting pilot program. The key objectives are to increase residential education on food waste prevention, produce nutrient-rich compost, and promote sustainable agricultural practices. The program will involve distributing countertop bins to residents,...

The City of New Haven received a $418,262.50 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production (UAIP) program to pilot several innovative composting and food waste reduction strategies in collaboration with local partners. Key products and services to be delivered through this 2-year project include: The Center for Ecotechnology (CET) will provide customized recommendations to apartment complexes, hotels, businesses, and...

This $131,102 cooperative agreement from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 3 will allow the City of Philadelphia Parks and Recreation (PPR) to launch a food waste composting public-private partnership. Under the Solid Waste Management Assistance Grants program, PPR will partner with a local food composting business to process source separated organics, including an estimated 131 tons of food scraps annually, on park land. An outreach and education program will also inform PPR...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service awarded a $404,750 Cooperative Agreement to the Avondale Estates Projects Corporation under the Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production (CFDA 10.935) federal grant program. This 2-year project will pilot a curbside food waste collection program for residents in Avondale Estates, Georgia and distribute the finished compost to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) growers in DeKalb County as well as local...

This $1,164,792 Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Reduce, Reuse, Recycling Education and Outreach (REO) Grants program (CFDA 66.921) will fund the World Wildlife Fund's (WWF) efforts to address food waste in schools across Atlanta, Baltimore, Memphis, and Nashville. Specifically, WWF will partner with local non-profit organizations in each city to conduct food waste audits in Title 1 schools, analyze the results, and implement evidence-based education...

This $1,757,210 Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling (SWIFR) Grant Program (CFDA 66.920), will support the Fond du Lac Reservation's efforts to establish and implement a compostable waste hub and spoke approach. Key activities include constructing a new compost facility, placing food waste collection bins at 10 Fond du Lac commercial entities, providing education and training on composting...