This webinar showcases the results of the Milwaukee Food Waste & Recovery Study and effort supporting FEED MKE and the Milwaukee’s Climate & Equity Plan. The report showcases the infrastructure, action, and collaboration needed to get to zero food waste in Milwaukee, highlighting the limitations, opportunities, and scale of solutions recommended.
2024 Milwaukee Food Waste Assessment: Processing Needs - Summary of Findings
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The written report includes resources and data used to evaluate the maximum potential of food waste diversion systems in Milwaukee County, and establishes recommendations for what is needed at the city and county level to eliminate food waste to landfill and shift those nutrients to recovery in the community.
This report includes background information, an evaluation of the quantity of food waste, what can be done with the food waste, where it is coming from, where we could send it, and the potential benefits of getting to zero food waste to landfill, economically and environmentally: job creation, feeding the hungry, and decreasing carbon emissions, increasing energy production and restoring degraded soils. |
A little background...
- WasteCap joined stakeholders invited by the City of Milwaukee to participate in the development of an EPA grant proposal to reduce food waste.
- The FEED MKE initiative was born from this group, but not all needs could be covered by the grant.
- WasteCap identified a missing element: the quantity of food waste that needed to be handled was unknown, and therefore the scale of the solutions needed were also unknown.
- Bruce Wiggins, a Milwaukee resident, identified the importance of this information for the city’s efforts and stepped forward to kick off the study, with the Greater Milwaukee Foundation providing the additional funds to complete the work. We heartily thank them both for their contributions
The following are a selection of organizations that provided data and input for the study:
