Active SLED Opportunity · MINNESOTA · MINNESOTA
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The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency invites applications for grants to fund projects that prevent food waste or rescue edible food for donation, aiming to reduce food waste statewide. Ineligible methods include composting and waste-to-energy.
Full RFP Name: MCSFS Statewide Prevention of Wasted Food and Food Rescue Grants The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) is working to decrease the amount of food being wasted. In line with the waste hierarchy, it is first preferable to prevent wasted food, followed by donating food to people. This RFP seeks projects that will prevent wasted food from being generated, prevent food from going to waste, or projects that rescue edible food from disposal and redirect it for human consumption. The MPCA invites eligible applicants to submit project applications that expand existing or establish new prevention of wasted food and/or food rescue projects in Minnesota. Other management methods with less environmental benefit are not eligible for this RFP including food-to-animals, composting, anaerobic digestion, waste-to-energy, and landfilling. The MPCA received grant funding from the Environmental Protection Agency, which includes other materials management focus areas (e.g., organics management, cleaner refrigerants, industrial innovation in food systems, etc.). There is more information on the website about these different options, and we encourage you to consider if your project is eligible under these other grant funding opportunities. Definitions For the purposes of this RFP, wasted food means food produced for human consumption that goes uneaten and is instead sent to waste, recycling, or other disposal streams. For the purposes of this RFP, food rescue means rescuing or recovering wasted food from waste, recycling, or other disposal streams and redirecting it to donation for human consumption. MPCA has authority to administer grants in Minnesota pursuant to Minn. Stat. § 116.03, subd. 2.
SLED stands for State, Local, and Education. These are solicitations issued by state governments, counties, cities, school districts, utilities, and higher education institutions — as opposed to federal agencies.
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