57BF7A7C-59A9-4ABC-A524-F54F61A5AC1B en-us utf8 dataset Tyler Rubright U.S. EPA Office of Land and Emergency Management (OLEM) - Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery (ORCR) Rubright.Tyler@epa.gov author 2021-06-17 ISO 19115 Geographic information - Metadata ISO 19115:2003 Sustainable Materials Management (SMM) Food Recovery Challenge (FRC) Data 2012 publication 2016 revision Tyler Rubright U.S. EPA Office of Land and Emergency Management (OLEM) - Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery (ORCR) Rubright.Tyler@epa.gov originator As part of EPA's Food Recovery Challenge (FRC), organizations pledge to improve their sustainable food management practices and report their results. The FRC is part of EPA's Sustainable Materials Management Program (SMM). SMM seeks to reduce the environmental impact of materials through their entire life cycle. This includes how they are extracted, manufactured, distributed, used, reused, recycled, and disposed. Organizations are encouraged to follow the Food Recovery Hierarchy (https://www.epa.gov/sustainable-management-food/food-recovery-hierarchy) to prioritize their actions to prevent and divert wasted food. Each tier of the Food Recovery Hierarchy focuses on different management strategies for your wasted food. The program started in 2011 and the first data were made available in 2012. The FRC is part of EPA's larger SMM program (https://www.epa.gov/smm). Sustainable Materials Management (SMM) is a systemic approach to using and reusing materials more productively over their entire lifecycles. It represents a change in how our society thinks about the use of natural resources and environmental protection. By looking at a product's entire lifecycle we can find new opportunities to reduce environmental impacts, conserve resources, and reduce costs. There are multiple challenge programs available as part of the SMM program, including the Food Recovery Challenge, the Electronics Challenge, the Federal Green Challenge, and the WasteWise program. The purpose of this data set is to allow users to access information regarding participation levels and award winners in EPA's Food Recovery Challenge (FRC) program. It allows individuals to understand which organizations are participating in Sustainable Management of Food practices. Sustainable Management of Food is a systematic approach that seeks to reduce wasted food and its associated environmental impacts over the entire life cycle, starting with extraction of natural resources and manufacturing, sales and consumption and ending with decisions on recycling or final disposal. Through a Sustainable Management of Food approach, EPA is helping change the way our society protects the environment and conserves resources for future generations. Building on the familiar concept of "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle", this approach changes how we think about environmental protection and recognizes the impacts of the food we waste.Individuals may generate a list of participants here: https://www.epa.gov/sustainable-management-food/food-recovery-challenge-frc#what. Individuals may access a list of award winners here: https://www.epa.gov/sustainable-management-food/food-recovery-challenge-results-and-award-winners. The FRC is part of EPA's larger SMM program (https://www.epa.gov/smm). SMM represents a change in how our society thinks about the use of natural resources and environmental protection. How our society uses materials is fundamental to our economic and environmental future. Global competition for finite resources will intensify as world population and economies grow. More productive and less impactful use of materials helps our society remain economically competitive, contributes to our prosperity and protects the environment in a resource-constrained future. Tyler Rubright U.S. EPA Office of Land and Emergency Management (OLEM) - Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery (ORCR) Rubright.Tyler@epa.gov owner annually Office of Land and Emergency Management (OLEM) Resource Conservation Food Waste Recovery Sustainability Purchasing Food Recovery Waste Disposal Landfill Environment theme User Environment theme EPA GIS Keyword Thesaurus United States place None otherRestrictions otherRestrictions https://edg.epa.gov/EPA_Data_License.html public unclassified FIPS Pub 199 Standard Technical Controls en-us environment USA -180 -66 18 72 Tyler Rubright U.S. EPA Office of Land and Emergency Management (OLEM) - Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery (ORCR) Rubright.Tyler@epa.gov distributor website reports website https://www.epa.gov/sustainable-management-food/food-recovery-challenge-frc#what download