Tools and resources

Less food to landfill PowerPoint presentation

• Toolkit
• Food
• Presentation
• Less Food to Landfill
• food waste
• Waste

(Less food to landfill toolkit) Download and modify this powerpoint with script to educate teams, community members or departments around the Less Food to Landfill goal and toolkit.  

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HIPAA Compliant Data Amendment - sample

• Waste
• Recycling
• Waste Management

Sample HIPAA compliant data amendment for use in contracts with suppliers. 

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Feed people, not landfills poster template

• Food
• Less Food to Landfill
• food waste
• Waste
• Composting
• Poster
• Toolkit

(Less food to landfill toolkit) Highlight the less food waste champions within your organization using this "Feed people, not landfills" poster template. Simply download this Microsoft Word document, customize with your organization's logo and employees' information, and save to a PDF to print.

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Electronics Waste Recycling - sample RFP

• Waste
• Recycling
• Waste Management
• Tool

Cascade Asset Management is a leading IT asset retirement service firm that assists enterprises and institutions with the secure and environmentally sound disposition of their technology assets.  From time to time, they are asked by businesses and institutions for guidance on how they can put together a formal asset retirement and electronics recycling program that meets their needs and goals. …

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Webinar: Food waste digestion case studies from Montefiore and Boston Medical Center

• Food
• food waste
• Waste
• Webinar
• Case Study
• Montefiore Medical Center
• Boston Medical Center
• Toolkit

(Less food to landfill toolkit)This is a five-part webinar series in food waste assessment and planning, prevention, donation, and management.   "Let's feed people, not landfills. By reducing wasted food in landfills, we cut harmful methane emissions that fuel climate change, conserve our natural resources, and protect our planet for future generations," Gina McCarthy, EPA administrator For…

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Webinar: Key insights on food waste from ReFed Report

• Food
• food waste
• Waste
• Toolkit
• Webinar

(Less food to landfill toolkit)This is a five-part webinar series in food waste assessment and planning, prevention, donation, and management.   "Let's feed people, not landfills. By reducing wasted food in landfills, we cut harmful methane emissions that fuel climate change, conserve our natural resources, and protect our planet for future generations," Gina McCarthy, EPA administrator…

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Webinar: Animal feeding and composting food waste with HealthPartners

• Food
• food waste
• Waste
• Solid waste
• Webinar
• Toolkit
• HealthPartners

(Less food to landfill toolkit)This is a five-part webinar series in food waste assessment and planning, prevention, donation, and management.   "Let's feed people, not landfills. By reducing wasted food in landfills, we cut harmful methane emissions that fuel climate change, conserve our natural resources, and protect our planet for future generations," Gina McCarthy, EPA administrator Join…

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Managing pharmaceutical waste: A 10-step blueprint

• Waste
• Pharmaceutical Waste
• Guide
• Less Waste

The Healthcare Environmental Resource Center (HERC) and Practice Greenhealth recommend this 10-step approach to help you develop and implement a comprehensive pharmaceutical hazardous waste management program – one that combines regulatory compliance and best management practices with waste minimization – to safeguard human health and the environment, while minimizing risk in a cost-effective…

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NYU Langone: Contracting Purchasing (2016)

• Waste
• Chemicals
• Exemplary Document
• Hazardous and universal waste
• Policy
• NYU Langone Medical Center

NYU Langone Medical Center provides an example of a safety policy on the proper management and disposal of hazardous waste from contractors involved in construction and building maintenance. The purpose of this policy is to protect human health and the environment and to comply with all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations.   View this resource to read the full policy from…

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Extended producer responsibility factsheet

• EPP
• EPP Resource
• Guide
• Purchasing
• Waste
• Recycling

One easy step government entities, businesses and institutions (such as hospitals and universities) can take to implement extended producer responsibility (EPR) is to buy from manufacturers that agree to collect and recycle their products when they reach the end of their useful life. This fact sheet explains how EPR – also called product stewardship – has been, and can be, added to policies and…

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