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City of Lincoln Composting for Residents

City of Lincoln Organic Waste Composting Guide for Businesses

coordinates many community gardens in Lincoln, Nebraska. The gardens are spread throughout the city to accommodate our participants. Our gardeners come from many different backgrounds and together they beautify our city while growing food for themselves.

is focused on reducing food waste on the campus and raising awareness about food insecurities in the surrounding community.

is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a vital focus: to provide food to those struggling with hunger in Nebraska and western Iowa, to ultimately eliminate hunger in our communities, and to serve our neighbors with respect, integrity and urgency. The Food Bank serves 93 counties鈥�77 in Nebraska and 16 in western Iowa.

The focuses on in southeast Nebraska.  Through many , the Food Bank serves 16 counties: Polk, York, Fillmore, Thayer, Butler, Seward, Saline, Jefferson, Saunders, Lancaster, Gage, Otoe, Johnson, Pawnee, Nemaha and Richardson.

seeks to reduce child hunger through a weekend backpack program.

is a group of volunteers from many different churches and other non-profit organizations trying to stop the waste of food and provide for those in need.  We collect food from donors for distribution at our sites around the Lincoln area each day.

Keep Nebraska Beautiful is dedicated to increasing awareness of the problem of food waste and providing strategies to help reduce food waste from farm to fork.

Lincoln and Lancaster County Waste Reduction Guide

The is a diverse group of farmers, gardeners, businesses, organizations, and individuals with one thing in common: we care about improving the local food system.

The works with rural communities to build healthy, sustainable, local food systems. The goal is to create food production and distribution systems that provide affordable fresh food for all, protect the environment, and keep money circulating in the local economy.

Community food systems take many forms, but they all have the same purpose: to connect the local people who grow and make food with the local people who eat it. 

In Nebraska, yard waste is banned from landfills, which saves 150,000 tons of yard waste from going to the landfill annually. It is often mixed with sewage sludge and made into compost available to the public. Many municipalities have also added food waste to their compost operations. Search your city for more information.

NEBRASKA DATE LABELING REGULATIONS
Date labels are the dates stamped on food items and accompanied by phrases such as 鈥渟ell by,鈥� 鈥渦se by,鈥� or 鈥渂est by.鈥� These dates are generally intended to communicate food quality, not food safety. Nevertheless, they exert a powerful influence on consumers and food vendors, who rely on these labels when deciding whether or not to throw food away. Under current federal law, date labels remain almost entirely unregulated, except for use on infant formula. States have filled this void with a variety of inconsistent date labeling regulations that often fail to reflect the distinction between food safety and food quality.

Nebraska does not have any laws that bear on food date labels.

believes it just makes sense to feed the hungry with excess perishable food that would otherwise be wasted.  They serve their mission by connecting perishable food from local food purveyors to local nonprofits that feed our hungry, while raising awareness and educating the community on wasted food and hunger.

Nebraska Revised Statute 25-21,189.
Food; donations; limitations on liability.

Waste to Energy Lincoln (WTEL), a division of Uribe Refuse Services, Inc., is Lincoln鈥檚 premiere organic waste recycling service.  Providing food waste collection services to businesses, institutions, special events, and homes in Lincoln and surrounding communities across southeast Nebraska.

Currently, WTEL is working with schools and businesses across Lincoln to divert food waste by collecting and hauling it to local compost facilities.  They have successfully diverted over 1,000 tons of food waste from the landfill.