SMM Toolkits and Guides

Toolkits and guides

• Conference for Food Protection
  Handouts and resources for food establishments on how to donate, transport, and serve excess foods
  • How to donate and serve food
  • Comprehensive resource for food recovery
  • Sample donation memorandum of understanding
• EPA Composting Food Scraps in Your Community: A Social Marketing Toolkit
  Communications toolkit for communities to improve food waste composting
• EPA Managing and Reducing Wastes: A Guide for Commercial Buildings
  Resources and tools for reducing waste generated by office buildings, schools, stores, hotels, restaurants, etc.
• EPA Managing and Transforming Waste Streams: A Tool for Communities
  Contract agreements, calculators, policy impact estimator, and more
• EPA Managing Pests in Schools
  Guidance on integrated pest management in schools and elsewhere
• EPA Model Recycling Program Toolkit
  Searchable toolkit to find resources, like case studies and education materials, for many different materials types and disposal pathways
• EPA Preventing Wasted Food in Your Community: A Social Marketing Toolkit
  Communications toolkit for communities to improve food waste prevention
• EPA Sustainable Management of Construction and Demolition Materials
  Resources on how to divert construction and demolition waste from landfills
• EPA Trash Free Waters
  A hub for litter management, providing users with templates, educational materials, best practices, and more
• The Recycling Partnership Recycling bin contamination reduction toolkits
  Toolkits to reduce recycling bin contamination in communities
• ReFED Solutions Database
  Excess and wasted food diversion opportunities and their estimated impacts
• ReFED U.S. Food Wastepolicy Finder
  Library of national and state food policies
• Seven Generations Ahead Zero Waste Event Planning Guide
  Online toolkit to help event organizers throw successful zero waste events
• Seven Generations Ahead Zero Waste Schools Toolkit
  Online toolkit to help schools get to zero waste, complete with educational materials, webinar recordings, templates, and more
• Whole Building Design Guide

Downloadable Resources

• EPA food loss prevention options for schools, manufacturers, restaurants, universities and grocery stores
  • Food loss prevention for grade schools
  • Food loss prevention for manufacturers
  • Food loss prevention for universities
  • Food loss prevention for grocery stores
  • Food waste log
  • Guide to conducting a student food waste audit
  • Guide to conducting and analyzing a food waste assessment
  • Food loss prevention for restaurants
  • Reducing wasted food and packaging: A guide for food services and restaurants
• EPA Food loss prevention tools for consumers
  • Consider the tomato: a fact sheet about wasted food
  • Smart prep: How to prep perishable foods to save time, effort and money
  • Smart storage: Know which fruits and vegetables stay fresh longer outside the fridge
  • Smart saving ‘Eat First!’ signs
• Federal Liability Protection For Food Donation: Legal Fact Sheet
  Factsheet from Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic on food donation liability protection
• NY PPI Food Scrap Contamination Guide
  Guide for food establishments on reducing compost bin contamination
• PPI’s 2023 SMM Case Summary
  Case summary on the application of sustainable materials management practices to reduce food waste in three Kansas educational institutes
• PPI's Food: Too Good To Waste Presentation
• PPI's Food Waste Prevention Playbook
  Five Kansas organizations' projects that educated students and communities about food waste, food waste prevention and strategies to reduce organic waste in landfills
• PPI's Strategic Communication Presentation​
  • Worksheet: Charting target audiences
  • Worksheet: Message wheel
  • Building Successful Alliances and Partnerships
  • 9 key Considerations to Influence Behavior for Action
  • Healthy Food Financing Intiative Toolkit
• PPI's Trash the Trash: Guide for hosting a litter pickup at your facility
• The Recycling Partnership: What Can I Recycle?
  What items can be recycled at facilities near you
• Sodexo Food Recovery and Donation Guide
  Guide to recoverying and donating excess food for food establishments
• WWF Business Case for K-12 Bulk Milk Dispensers
  Case study on using bulk milk dispensers at schools to reduce waste and save money
• WWF Food Waste Warriors: A deep dive into food waste in US schools
  Research report from a 46-school cafeteria audit held in nine cities across eight states; contains city-by-city case studies and recommendations for policy makers and school districts