Ohio State Food Waste Collaborative
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The Ohio State Food Waste Collaborative is a collection of researchers, practitioners, and students working together to promote the reduction and redirection of food waste as an integral part of a healthy and sustainable food system. In addition to conducting research, the Collaborative currently offers consultation on implementation and evaluation of projects focused on food waste reduction and redirection efforts at the consumer and household level within Ohio State University and across the state of Ohio.
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IMPACT. 1: Held Harnessing Consumers and Communities to Help Meet U.S. Food Waste Reduction Goals, a conference, webinar and networking event on August 26, 2016. 85 attended via the webinar while 85 people registered as in-person participants or speakers for a total of 170 registrants. -- 2. Provided consults and connections for more than 20 entities (some individuals, some groups) both on campus and from the broader community as follow up from the Networking Event with plans to reach out and follow up with others attending the event who listed possible collaborative possibilities. -- 3. Helped support the organization and staffing of a composting pilot project in Scott House, Blackburn and Haverfield residence halls on OSU. This project employs 3 OSU students and involves several additional student volunteers working in close consultation with residence hall, housekeeping and FOD staff.
OSU PARTNERS: College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences; (Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics & Agricultural Communications); College of Engineering (City and Regional Planning); OSU Facilities Operations and Development; Initiative for Food and AgriCultural Transformation (InFACT); Discovery Theme; OSU Sustainability Fund; Food Innovation Center; Sustainable and Resilient Economy; (SRE) Discovery Theme; SUSTAINS Learning Community; Scott House, Blackburn and Haverfield residence halls
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Resources 100 LTD; Ohio EPA; Pennington Biomedical Research Center
PRIMARY CONTACT: Brian Roe (foodwaste@osu.edu)