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Food Scrap Management

Food Diversion Summit

This statewide summit held in Sacramento Oct. 22-23, 2002, highlighted a wide variety of speakers and provided attendees an opportunity to discuss the challenges and possible solutions for food diversion efforts.

Listed below are presentations from the summit. Keynote speakers included Frances Moore Lappe, author of 'Diet for a Small Planet" and recently 'Hope's Edge: The New Diet for a Small Planet' and John Dunlap, President and CEO of California Restaurant Association.

Food Waste Management Options

• Fields to Families (Adobe PDF, 1105 KB). Presenter: Willy Elliott-McCrea, Executive Director, Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Cruz and San Benito Counties.
• "Adding Value to Food Scraps through Animal Feed Manufacturing." Presenter: Bill Tomasic, President, Innovative Waste Management. 
• "Composting Logistics." Presenter: Roger VanderWende, Vice President, Community Recycling and Resource Recovery.

Integrated Approaches to Food Diversion

• "San Francisco Food Diversion Programs."  Presenter: Jack Macy, Commercial Recycling Coordinator, City of San Francisco. 
• Alameda County Food Scraps Recycling (Adobe PDF, 1987 KB). Presenter: Brian Mathews, Program Manager, Alameda County Waste Management Authority.

Regulator Perspectives

• The Solid Waste/Food Nexus: A Regulatory Perspective (Adobe PDF, 329 KB). Presenter: Bill Prinz, Environmental Health Specialist, City of San Diego Development Services Department.
• Agricultural Commodities & Regulatory Services (Adobe PDF, 45 KB). Presenter: Steven Wong, Branch Chief, California Department of Food and Agriculture.
• Food Waste Regulation: CIWMB Regulatory Perspective (Adobe PDF, 205 KB). Presenter: Scott Walker, California Integrated Waste Management Board.

Partnerships

• South Bay Food Finders Cooperative (Adobe PDF, 891 KB). Presenter: Arlene Mercer, Founder and Executive Director, Food Finders.
• Greening South Asian Restaurants (Adobe PDF, 896 KB). Presenter: Ritu Primlani, Executive Director, Thimmakka Resources for Environmental Education.