From 2016 through 2018, in partnership with the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and with a wide variety of stakeholders, the Baltimore Office of Sustainability developed the Baltimore Food Waste & Recovery Strategy. This document lays out the reasons for rescuing edible food, recovering food waste, and composting; defines potential solutions; highlights seven local case studies; and sets ten major goals and 69 short, medium, and long-term strategies around the following topics:
- Commercial & Institutional Food Waste Reduction & Recovery
- Composting At Home & In The Community
- Creating Scalable Composting Infrastructure
- Composting in K-12 Schools
With support from the National Resources Defense Council and the Rockefeller Foundation, we have hired Ava Richardson as our new Food Matters Technical Advisor to begin work on implementing this strategy. She can be reached at 410.396.9508 or ava.richardson@baltimorecity.gov.
Watch Mayor Pugh’s press conference on this exciting initiative!