INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Recycling Coalition (IRC) recently announced the launch of a new multi-stakeholder initiative designed to reduce food waste in Indiana. The Indiana Food Scrap Initiative (IFSI) will explore the issues that cause food waste and will work to divert as much food from disposal as possible.
Over the coming months, the IRC will host a series of meetings to reveal the causes, hurdles and opportunities to saving more food at every rung of the waste management hierarchy — prevention, reuse, composting and digestion — to spur opportunities and build comprehensive infrastructure to address Indiana’s food scrap challenge. Very little infrastructure for managing food scraps exists in Indiana today, though local stakeholders, coupled with models from other parts of the country, offer common-sense solutions for Hoosiers.
Anyone interested in learning more about the Indiana Food Scrap Initiative (IFSI) and/or to sign up to receive IFSI communications can visit www.indianarecycling.org/recycle/indiana-food-scrap-initiative/.