Subaru of America, in conjunction with National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA), released survey findings indicating that a majority of Americans (59%) were unaware of the waste management challenges facing national parks across the country. As we celebrate the centennial of the National Park Service, the Subaru National Park Survey explored attitudes and behaviors of park goers, revealing that, while most are unaware, more than four in five (84%) would be willing to make a significant effort to reduce the amount of trash left in parks.
EPA WASTED FOOD MEASUREMENT METHODOLOGY SCOPING MEMO
In 2017, EPA set out to revise its food measurement methodology to more fully capture flows of excess food and food waste throughout the food system, and to provide more granular annual estimates of generation and management of excess food and food waste to the public. EPA developed a Scoping Memo that describes the measurement methodology EPA has used to date, as well as the enhanced methodology that EPA developed between 2017 and 2019. The enhanced methodology examined additional management pathways, which significantly expand the scope beyond EPA’s previous set of management pathways for food waste (i.e., composting, landfill, and combustion).
Excess Food Opportunities Map
About the U.S. EPA Excess Food Opportunities Map
The U.S. EPA Excess Food Opportunities Map supports nationwide diversion of excess food from landfills. The interactive map identifies and displays facility-specific information about potential generators and recipients of excess food in the industrial, commercial and institutional sectors and also provides estimates of excess food by generator type.
Letter to the editor, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Sept. 16, 2016
To the editor: Don’t throw it away; how admirable and worthwhile. Denali National Park’s volunteers are taking on a new and long-needed zero-waste initiative for visitors to Denali National Park; they are even giving each participant a nice prize for helping get it going. While in the park (or anywhere, really), sort your trash from all that snacking and picnic fun between items that can be recycled and actual waste. Volunteers are collecting aluminum cans, plastic drink bottles, glass containers and mixed paper. Feel free to additionally save tin cans for recycling in Fairbanks or Anchorage; maybe even your fruit and sandwich vegetable scraps for composting.
This is a great idea, a wonderful volunteer effort and inspiring participation by park visitors. Think how much that could save us in trash collection personnel, trash bags, landfill space and money.
How to Not Love the National Parks to Death
This year marks the centennial of the National Park Service, and record numbers of visitors are expected to celebrate by exploring the system’s incomparable natural, historical, and cultural resources.
All those adventure seekers impact parks. But there’s a respectful way to go about it.
When a tourist loaded a young bison into the back of his car at Yellowstone National Park last month, the incident shocked people inside and outside the park. But there are ways all visitors—park veterans or nature newbies—can minimize effects on these irreplaceable places and set parks on a sustainable path for the next century. You can help keep the wild in wilderness and maybe even leave parks better than you found them.