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With SNAP in crisis, America’s epic food waste problem has become a lifeline

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The government shutdown, now the longest in U.S. history, is making it much less likely that many Americans will have enough food to eat this month. 

Last week, before the funds for federal grocery benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, ran out due to the shutdown, district court judge John McConnell ordered the Trump administration to use contingency funding to keep SNAP flowing for the month of November. The administration responded on Monday by saying it would restore only about half the total amount, and warned that it could take months for recipients to receive the payments. 

On Thursday, McConnell issued a subsequent ruling, ordering that the USDA must fund full SNAP benefits for November and immediately distribute that funding to states, enacting an end of day Friday deadline. “This should never happen in America,” said …

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A greener Ramadan: How Atlanta-area mosques are cutting food waste during the Muslim holy month

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One evening in early March, Nina Ansari frowns as she picks up an untouched plate of rice left on the floor of the masjid she attends near her home in Stone Mountain. “Would anyone like to take this?” she asks a group of women standing nearby. When no one responds, she picks it up. Her hands are already full of the pizza and curry leftovers that her kids didn’t finish. If she doesn’t take the rice home, it will be thrown out. “There’s a lot of waste that happens during Ramadan,” says Nina, 38, who grew up in Georgia. 

During the Muslim holy month — a time of spiritual rejuvenation through increased prayer and daylight fasting — masjids may serve hundreds of visitors for iftar, the sunset meal that marks the breaking of the fast. Some also serve a meal …

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Explore Food Waste Collection With Nicole Chardoul

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Maximize Local Organics Recycling with Food Waste Collection

Are you considering food waste collection in your community? With Materials Management Planning underway across Michigan counties, now is the perfect moment for local communities to explore this opportunity. Join RRS Vice President Nicole Chardoul for a half-day training on introducing food waste into compost collection programs and operations. The training is part of a pre-conference training day before the 2024 Michigan Recycling Coalition (MRC) “Stay Current” Conference.

  • Registration: Register with MRC for the pre-conference training on the MRC website. You can also register on the training day in Port Huron for an additional cost.
  • Training Name: Introducing Food Waste into Collection Programs and Operations to Maximize Local Organics Recycling – Nicole Chardoul
  • Advanced Registration: Members $ 65, Non-Members $ 90
  • Day-Of Registration: Members $ 90, Non-Members $ 120
  • Date: April
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New EPA rules tell polluters in Great Lakes communities to clean up legacy coal waste

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When Dulce Ortiz wants to enjoy the beauty of Lake Michigan, walk in a green space, or see and touch the water, she has to leave her neighborhood, even though the second-largest of the Great Lakes is in her backyard. 

Ortiz lives in Waukegan, Illinois, a suburb about an hour north of Chicago that has a lurid history of toxic waste. With a population of only 88,000, the city has five Superfund sites, many of them found along the Lake Michigan shoreline. 

And that’s not even counting the large pools of toxic materials leftover from decades of burning coal in Waukegan. Deep pits of hazardous sludge sit along the shores of Lake Michigan, the watershed for roughly 12 million people. 

Ortiz, co-chair of the local environmental justice organization Clean Power Lake County, calls these coal waste sites a …

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