Center for Ecotechnology Inc

Per Your Application Request Dated July 13, 2020 This Cooperative Agreement Is Being Awarded Federal Funding in the Amount of $290,422 to the Center for Eco Technology (CET) Proposes the Northeast Anaerobic Digestion Accelerator (NADA) to Increase the Use of Ad for Processing and Recovering Value From Wasted Food. Nada Is a Collaboration Among Cet and Ad Facilities, Environmental Agencies in Each Partner State, Other Government Units, Community Groups, Non-profits, Businesses That Generate Wasted Food Suitable for Ad, and Other Service Providers (haulers, Depackaging Facilities) in Ma, CT, Ri, Ny, NJ, Pa (philadelphia), and MD, All Geographies With Food Waste Disposal Policies or Targets and Existing or Planned Ad Infrastructure. the Northeast Is the Leading U.s. Region for Advanced Wasted Food Policy and Regulations. Nada Will Leverage This Unique Landscape to Amplify the Impacts of Any One State Acting Alone by Facilitating Information and Knowledge Exchange, and Accelerating the Growth of Wasted Food Digestion and Inter-state Service Provider Activity. Our Three-pronged Approach to Bolstering Food Waste Diversion to Ad Includes: 1) Providing Technical Assistance (TA) to Increase Food Scrap Diversion to Ad; 2) Training and Capacity Building for Stakeholders Across the Wasted Food Marketplace to Strengthen and Expand Ad Activity; and 3) Developing and Disseminating Resources to Assist in Stakeholder Outreach, Education, and Training Across the Marketplace. This Work Directly Supports the Objectives in the Rfa and Contributes to Epa's Sustainable Materials Management Goal, Demonstrating Transferrable Approaches to Increasing Ad Utilization and Generation of Useful Products From Food Waste, and Furthers Epa's Strategic Plan Goals to Divert Food Waste From Landfills/incineration, Thus Protecting Air, Land, and Water Quality, and Enhancing Shared Accountability. Nada Will Deliver the Following Outcomes From the Rfa: Increased Business Understanding of Ad and Its Benefits; Improved Capacity of Businesses to Use Ad Facility Capacity; Improved Quality of Feedstock for Existing Ad Facility Capacity; Increased Capacity of