The focus groups convened residents of the Strawberry Mansion and South Philadelphia neighborhoods to talk about their experiences with household food waste and offer feedback about educational messages that the Office of Sustainability designed for their citywide food waste awareness campaign, “Eat Away at Food Waste.” Philadelphia, PA: Completed two focus groups series in partnership with local community-based organizations SMCDC and SEAMAAC.By reducing the amount of quality surplus food going to waste, the city can not only play a role in ensuring that that food is eaten by people, but can also reduce waste hauling costs to save the city money. Jersey City, NJ: Developed their first food rescue mapping initiative to better understand the food rescue landscape and stakeholders across the city so that more food can be redistributed effectively.Food scraps are being collected throughout the city at five existing drop-off centers, then composted by local compost service Compost Crew. Baltimore, MD: Set up a food scrap drop-off pilot, which aims to raise awareness about food waste and reduce food in Baltimore’s residential waste stream. Highlights from each cohort city’s year two activities include: We congratulate all of our Mid-Atlantic and Southeast partners on their successes, and look forward to their continued participation in our city knowledge sharing network. Many city agencies and local stakeholders in each city were involved in goal setting and strategy development and implementation over the two-year timeline of the Initiative. In the second year, Mid-Atlantic and Southeast cities participating in the initiative engaged over 525 food rescue stakeholders (organizations, donors, end users, etc.), received over an estimated 6 million views of messaging related to wasted food prevention, hosted over 350 community events, collected or processed over 1600 tons of food scraps/organics, and conducted at least 25 food waste audits. Last year, we published a blog about the achievements of the cohorts in their first year of engagement.
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