Managing Food Waste in the Urban Environment

Global Green USA is a national environmental organization and one of 31 international affiliates of Green Cross International (GCI).  Started in 1994, Global Green works to create sustainable urban environments and combat global warming through the merger of innovative research, technical assistance, community based projects and targeted education and outreach. Global Green’s Coalition for Resource Recovery (CoRR) is an industry working group founded by and under the direction of Global Green that is dedicated to combating climate change and generating business value through transforming waste into assets such as energy or biofuel. The client has done extensive work to identify realistic technologies to treat and manage food wastes.  The client would like the ESP program to develop a framework for how project developers for organic waste processing technologies such as anaerobic digestion can best work with community groups in order to site new organic waste processing facilities at existing industrial facilities (e.g., existing waste transfer stations) or at other locations.