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City reports strong results from food‑recovery grants and a neighborhood food‑waste prevention campaign
Summary
San Francisco presented outcomes from CalRecycle grants and a household food‑waste prevention campaign: the city reported two prior grants, an additional $2.1M award, over 800,000 pounds of recovered food from earlier grants, and a targeted neighborhood campaign with 3.8M online impressions and 31,000 clicks.
San Francisco’s Department of the Environment updated the Commission on the Environment on Aug. 26 about edible‑food recovery grants and a household food‑waste prevention campaign that targeted two neighborhoods.
Alexa Kelty, residential zero‑waste senior coordinator, summarized CalRecycle grant work (previous grant rounds of roughly $500,000 and $212,000 were cited) and said the department recently received $2,100,000 to expand citywide food recovery and compliance with state law (SB 1383). She described grant uses including transport funding, software that connects donors to recovery organizations, and support to food recovery groups to build fee‑for‑service models.
Kelty…
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