Maine Food Waste Solutions Summit 2022
“Improving Maine’s Food System”
Friday, April 15, 2022
9am – 12pm
The Maine Food Waste Solutions Summit is Maine’s annual food waste event that brings together our state’s key food system participants—farms, food businesses, feeding partners, community leadership, and government and nonprofit organizations. Working together, we can move to a circular food system where food is highly valued and never wasted. This new vision for Maine’s food system will equitably deliver economic, social, and environmental/climate benefits for all Maine people!
- Keynote: Updates from National and State Food Waste Experts
- Panel: Maine Food Waste “Success Stories”
- Student Intern Report: Maine Food Waste Solutions Progress
- Breakout Sessions: How to Be The Solution?
Food waste data is grim: 40% of food produced is never eaten, yet 1 in 8 Maine households suffer from food insecurity. Food is the single largest component of Maine’s solid waste system at 30%. And 97% of that waste ends up in landfills where it releases contaminants and produces methane gas—threatening our water and climate. Food waste also squanders valuable resources like energy, labor, soil, and nearly 25% of U.S. freshwater supplies which are used to produce food that is never eaten.
But food waste is just a symptom of a broken food system. Learn how we can end food waste and build a strong food system with simple individual and community action!
Contact Susanne Lee if you have any questions or need more information.
The Summit is free and open to the public.
Please register by April 1, 2022.
Virtual Summit Agenda and Zoom/Phone link will follow.
|
|