Local Enforcement Agency Correspondence

California Food Diversion Workshop Update

Date: September 27, 2002

To: All Local Enforcement Agencies

This all LEA E-mail was sent on behalf of Terry Brennan and the LEA Support Services Branch of the California Integrated Waste Management Board.

The California Integrated Waste Management Board's Statewide Food Residuals Diversion Summit (Summit) is fast approaching. The Summit is scheduled for October 22nd and 23rd in Sacramento, CA. The early registration deadline has passed, but there are still some registration and exhibitor spaces open.

The full Summit agenda and program information has been added to the registration website (no longer open).

Highlights include:

Presenters:

Keynote Speaker: Frances Moore Lappé, author of Hopes Edge and Diet For a Small Planet

Other speakers and presenters include:

• Linda Moulton Patterson, Chair, Integrated Waste Management Board
• John Dunlap, President and CEO, California Restaurant Association
• Willy Elliott-McCrea, Founding President of the California Association of Food Banks
• Pat McConahay, KVIE Public Television
• Jack Macy, Organic Materials Recycling Program Director for the City and County of San Francisco
• and many others…

General Sessions:

Topics covered in large group sessions include:

• Food Waste Management Options
• Identifying Challenges
• Regulator Perspectives
• Generator Perspectives
• Targeting Your Audience

Focus Group Sessions: Several brainstorming sessions will be held to identify and address challenges to various types of food recovery and diversion.  Some  topics to be addressed include:

Generator Participation:

• Food Banking
• Animal Feed/Rendering
• Food Collection for Composting
• Institutional/on-site composting
• Packaging/contamination issues

The Summit is filling up, so please register (N/A) as soon as possible. If you have any question please contact Terry Brennan at (916) 341-6578 or tbrennan@ciwmb.ca.gov

Thank you,
Melissa Hoover-Hartwick
LEA Support Services
(916) 341-6813

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