General topics of interest include:

Food Recovery Forum: Actions and Progress on Food Waste Prevention, Reduction & Recovery | Funding Food Waste Solutions and Infrastructure Development | Technologies to Reduce Food Loss and Waste | Mitigating Climate Impacts | Government and Business Policies and Program Solutions for Reducing Food Waste | Best Management Practices for Food Rescue, Food Waste Prevention, and Food Waste Reduction | Achieving 50% reduction of Food Waste by 2030 | Circular Economy in Food Waste and Food Production | Developing a Sustainable Food System

Organics Recycling & Management: Technologies: Anaerobic Digestion, Composting, MBT and other Conversion Technologies | Diversion of Organics – Policies, Legislation | Infrastructure development, financing, and funding opportunities | Collection Strategies | Best Management Practices for Processing and Process Management | GHG reduction, and mitigating climate change | Cannabis: Composting, residuals management, compost production | Successful Business Models | Value-added Products – biogas, biofuels, compost, renewable energy | Zero Waste

Organics Recycling & Management Track topics include, but are not limited to:

• Anaerobic Digestion systems and technologies, case studies, BMP's, odor control, financing options, funding opportunities
• Composting systems and technologies, odor control, process management, BMP's
• Integrating AD, Composting, and other technologies
• Conversion technologies for organics | Mechanical Biological Treatment (MBT)
• Technology evaluation and selection
• Financing organics recovery facilities
• Regulations & issues for siting, permitting and operating organics recovery facilities
• Infrastructure development, meeting capacity needs
• Developing organics recycling & food scrap recovery programs – municipal, commercial, institutional…
• Organics Collection & Processing - BMP’s, model programs, equipment
• Renewable energy from organics
• Zero waste strategies, policies, & programs
• Biogas production and markets | Gas upgrading | digestate processing, quality & uses
• GHG reduction and minimizing climate change
  
• Compostable plastics & packaging
• Cannabis composting, residuals management, compost production for cannabis growers
  

Food Recovery Forum Track topics include, but are not limited to:

• Food waste prevention and reduction – programs, policies, solutions
• Increasing food recovery for beneficial use
• Food Rescue – BMP's, model programs
• Using Technology and data to reduce food loss and waste and increase food recovery
• Government and business policies and programs for reducing food waste
• Achieving 50% reduction of food waste by 2030 – Possible or Not?
• Food residuals diversion, source separation and recovery, collection & transport, processing options, case studies, lessons learned, BMP's
• Recovery of food scraps from commercial, institutional, and residential sources
• Food scraps recovery from event venues, e.g., stadiums, sports, concerts, convention centers
• Strategies and policies for increasing diversion of food waste & other organics: e.g., landfill bans, mandatory composting, zero waste plans
• GHG reduction and mitigating climate change
  
• Technologies & Equipment for processing food scraps
• Developing food waste and organics recycling programs – strategies, innovations, case studies
• Food waste and organics collection: methods, vehicles, containers, frequency, case studies
• Opportunities for waste haulers: collection & processing food scraps and other organics
• Circular Economy in Food Waste and Food Production
  
• Building food waste recovery infrastructure | Financing and funding needs
• Developing a sustainable food system
• Circular Economy in Food Waste and Food Production
   

Submission deadline is August 15, 2022.

Organic Recycling and Food Recovery Forum questions should be directed to:

Dr. Stuart Buckner, Conference Chair & Program Director: Organics Recycling & Food Recovery Forum; (631) 834.1400 or [email protected]