1. Food Recovery
Jack Johnson

2. What is CA SB 1383?
Legislation to, among other things, innovatively reduce methane emissions. 40% of all waste going into landfills is food waste, and food waste in landfills is a very large contributor to green house gas emissions and climate change.

3. Statewide Targets 2025 - 75% organic waste reduction
% increase in edible food recovered for human consumption

4. Edible Food Recovery Program
In order to achieve this goal and for the first time ever, edible food will be required to be diverted for human consumption instead of composted or landfilled.
More food:
In 2022, grocery stores/supermarkets, caterers & wholesalers will be required to contract with food banks and food recovery organizations.
In 2024, large restaurants, hotels, health facility, large venue, large event, state and local agencies will be covered too.

5. Edible Food Recovery Program
Every city, town, and county will have to:
Pass legislation
Generate a baseline (33,000,000 lbs in SMC/yr)
Help agencies build up their ability to accept this additional food
Work with you—at your discretion/choice—to contract with generators—you set the terms

6. Edible Food Recovery Program
Requirements for food recovery organizations (receiving 12,000 lbs/year or around 230 lbs/week)
Must:
Maintain records
Report to the jurisdiction
May:
contract with generators to pickup/distribute edible food
PAUSE---ASK IF THERE ARE AGENCIES IN THE AUDIENCE ACCEPTING FOOD FROM COPIA? PENINSULA FOOD RUNNERS? OR PICKING IT UP YOURSELF?

7. Edible Food Recovery Program
County of San Mateo, Office of Sustainability is:
Partnering with Second Harvest to expand grocery rescue to Costcos in the county
Partnering w/ Fresh Approach and Leah’s Pantry to offer nutrition ed, food waste reduction, and food preservation education at 39 farmers markets and 6 cooking demos this summer
Establishing ONE county-wide program instead of 21 individual programs

8. Edible Food Recovery Program
The Office of Sustainability needs your help:
We are looking for agencies
Who will need help—staff, equipment, vehicles, etc. to accept more food
Will partner with us on innovative ideas for moving more food to your clients
Currently working with a core service agency and a non-profit to do more grocery rescue
A non-profit and multi family apartment complex to distribute food
Work with us to create contracts, contacts, records, etc. that will be required to be in place by 2020.

9. Questions Contact: Jack Johnson
Sustainability Coordinator Waste Reduction
County of San Mateo - Office of Sustainability

10. Second Harvest’s Role in Food Recovery
Barbara Gehlen

11. SHFB Pounds Sourced 70 Million Lbs
Food Recovery represents approx. 14M lbs
Show of hands:
-Who is interested in more donated food?
-How many participating in the GR program?
-How many are not part of the GR program but are picking food from donors?
Data: 12-month rolling -April 2018-March 2019

12. Food Recovery Distributors & Wholesalers Retailers
Large volume: up to truckload quantity
Frequency: 1-5 days per week
Retailers
Smaller volume
Frequency: prefer daily
Food Recovery = Food Rescue
In general, products are highly perishables

13. Distributors & Wholesalers
Donation Partnership and Business Solutions
Picking up from Amazon Fresh 5 days/week; over 2.5M lbs

14. Retail Partners 60 participating agencies
250 donating store locations…and growing!
Starbucks alone, represents over 150 stores with daily pickups.

15. Potential Retail Partners
Working together to meet the goal of 2022
SHFB will continue to expand on retail stores. Here are some examples and there are many more others not listed here.
You may already be partnering with these stores and may or may not be tracking the pounds.
Could potentially recover 2M+ lbs with approx. 52+ Sfwy stores between both counties.

16. CA SB1383 Impact More food More variety More requirements
Existing donors
New donors
More variety
Grocery
Prepared Foods
More requirements
Record keeping
Reporting
Impact to our network
Existing donors – incline to donate more instead of putting in compost bins; more days to pickup
New donors – adhering to the new law or get fined
Reporting & record keeping –we are in compliance by using the MealConnect Tool; however, we are looking to the State for guidance on standard reporting

17. Record Keeping Landing page for MealConnect tool.
Speak with your Partnership Mgr or visit the Grocery Rescue resource table at the conference.

18. SHFB’s Role Collaborate Tracking Educate Support Train
- Collaborate with food recovery and feeding organizations to recover edible food fit for human consumption from donors
- Educate donors & agencies on food safety and handling
- Train agencies on food safety on pickup and transport of food from donors to agencies
- Support you with resources such as infrastructure
- Record keeping
With SB1383, SHFB role may change
Support
Train

19. Other Food Recovery Organizations
Peninsula Food Runners
Copia
Replate
Food Donation Connection
Feed the Children
Silicon Valley Food Rescue
Organization picking up food from donors in SMC/SCC and may be dropping off to you.
Show of hands: If you are working with these organization, how is it working?

20. Questions Contact: Barbara Gehlen
Director of Food Sourcing & Inventory