Last fall, we teamed up with our partners Recycle Leaders and Soilful to implement a Community Action Grant funded by Sustainability DC 2.0. The grant supported piloting the "Team Up on Food Waste @ DC Wards 7 and 8" action research project to work with DC residents living in some of our most marginalized neighborhoods where families face significant food access and food security challenges. We wrote about it in this blog here. Recycle Leaders is a social enterprise that hel

Loop Closing provided installation, commissioning (start-up), and training for Baltimore City’s Office of Sustainability’s first on-site composting machine this week! Malcolm House and ILSR partnered with us to stand up the project and provide guidance and a supporting data collection system. Malcolm House receives recovered food for feeding the community, consistent with ILSR’s food hierarchy. Then, only what cannot be reused is recycled by composting it on-site to avoid h

Check out this week's piece in which Voice of America broadcasting discussed on-site composting as one way to help divert food waste in light of the heightened demand for fresh produce. They brought their story to Washington, DC, home to an established local food systems network due to numerous farmers markets, Community Supported Agriculture, sustainably-minded food delivery services, and the like. They propose that food is wasted much less within local and smaller distribut

Join us in supporting Senator Merkely's #BreakFreeFromPlastic Pollution Act, a comprehensive plan to address the plastic which pollutes our air, water, and land and disproportionately impacts low-income Americans and communities of color. The legislation would reduce plastic production, increase recycling, and protect frontline and fenceline communities from toxic plastic waste emissions. The bill mandates that corporations clean up the plastic they produce, creating a finan