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“I’m always looking for ways to be engaged and help our environment … and with everyone being stuck at home there’s not a lot of ways you can do that.”
— High School Student, 2020 remote challenge participant
Rewarding Change
Our 2020 challenge was a success. Check out the highlights.
Collectively we reduced our discarded food by 26%! Can we do better this year?
Join us for 2021 Earth day challenge.
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Who can participate? Anyone can participate! The competition is designed with teachers and students working remotely across the country. A team can be a single household, or a group of households.
What is the Make the Most of Food challenge? The Make the Most of Food challenge s a fun remote competition designed to inspire teams of households to take action over to improve nutrition, save money, and reduce food waste. During the 4-week competition starting April 1, each participating household will collect seven days of baseline data on discarded food, use this data to take action to make better use of food, collect "after" data, and share results with their team leaders. Team leaders will report results to be eligible for awards. The procedures are designed for easy participation without any special supplies.
How will we measure success? We will measure the volume of discarded food that could have been eaten but wasn’t. That is, food that was bought but spoiled before it was eaten or prepared (e.g. a rotten banana), or food that was prepared but went uneaten (e.g. moldy banana bread).
How does this help teachers and students? The Make the Most of Food challenge provides teachers and students with a civic action project appropriate for remote learning that can easily be standards-aligned. It is modeled after the DC-wide "DC Reduce First! Challenges" for schools. This is a positive alternative for students who prior to schools closing for COVID-19 would have planned to participate in Earth Day 2021 action campaigns.
Who wins? Everyone wins when we all make the most of food! Together all participants will contribute to the United States’s aim of Winning on Reducing Food Waste which is aligned with the Sustainable Development Goal 12.3 target of halving global food waste by 2030.
Ok, how would my team win? Select teams will be recognized for "Highest Performance" (lowest food discarded in cups per person per week), "Most Improved" (highest % change in food discarded in cups per person per week), and “Most Replicable Solution” (subjectively awarded for a new strategy that can be easily replicated by other teams).