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Food Waste Resources

Click here to read the municipal climate action plan food waste toolkit
Click here to read the model compost procurement policy
Click here to read the model compost procurement policy with commentaries
Click here to read Mayor Cooper's Sustainability Advisory Committee Report from 2021
Click here to read the landscape analysis of community composting in Nashville
Click here to read the Nashville food rescue landscape analysis
Click here to read the packaging best practices for prepared food donation
Click here to read a donor's guide to the enhanced federal tax deduction for food donation
Click here for the food donation guidelines for licensed food facilities
Click here to read the legal fact sheet for food donation in Tennessee: liability protections
Click here to read the legal fact sheet: the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act
Click here to listen to Wasted
Click here to read an estimate of the quantities and types of food waste at the city level
Click here to read modeling the potential to increase food rescue: Denver, New York City, and Nashville
Click here to read keeping food out of the landfill: policy ideas for states and localities
Click here to read landscape analysis of industrial, commercial, and institutional food scrap recycling in Nashville
Click here to read the Nashville Food Waste Initiative flyer
Click here to read the Mayor's food saver challenge postcard

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