Food Scraps for Animal Feed

State Specific Food Waste Fact Sheets

These food waste fact sheets explain how federal laws interact with state laws on date labeling, liability protection, tax incentives for businesses, and food scraps for animal feed to impact food waste.

Achieving Zero Food Waste: A State Policy Toolkit

In response to constituent demand, state leaders are at the forefront of advancing efforts to tackle food waste across the United States—ensuring food makes it to those experiencing food insecurity, creating jobs and economic opportunities, while also addressing environmental harms and climate change. FLPC, in collaboration with the Zero Food Waste Coalition, created this toolkit to similarly embolden officials and advocates from across the country to learn from each other’s successes and accelerate their own leadership and impact. This toolkit contains a range of tried and tested policies that states can use to prevent food waste and keep food out of landfills and incinerators.

Opportunities to Reduce Food Waste in the 2023 Farm Bill

Opportunities to Reduce Food Waste in the 2023 Farm Bill details how Congress can act to reduce food waste and recommends specific provisions to include in the 2023/2024 Farm Bill. Given the bipartisan support for measures to reduce food waste, the farm bill provides an exciting opportunity to invest in food waste reduction efforts for greater social, economic, and environmental benefits. This report breaks food waste recommendations into four categories, based on whether they are intended to prevent food waste, increase food recovery, recycle food scraps through composting or anaerobic digestion, or coordinate food waste reduction efforts.

Good Laws, Good Food: Putting Local Food Policy to Work for Our Communities

Section VIII of this toolkit discusses state and local policies to decrease and recover food that would otherwise be wasted.

Leftovers for Livestock: A Legal Guide for Using Food Scraps as Animal Feed

This paper provides guidance to food scrap generators, farmers, and other stakeholders interested in using food scraps as animal feed by discussing federal and state regulations bearing on animal feed safety. This paper also lays out a core set of considerations for those interested in feeding food scraps to animal feed.