Organics Management Guide
Call for Case Studies
Submission Deadline: February 9th, 2026 at 9:00 AM ET
The Organics Management Guide will highlight innovative programs, policies, and partnerships that advance the “sustainable organic materials management” across local and regional systems.
This guide illustrates “the journey of food and the shift away from disposal”, documenting how communities, organizations, and businesses manage surplus food, food scraps, and wasted food through strategies such as source reduction, upcycling, donation for human consumption, animal feed processing, composing, anaerobic digestion and other beneficial reuse methods.
Aligned with the
federal Wasted Food Scale, this guide will serve as a practical reference for policymakers, program managers, political jurisdictions, and industry stakeholders seeking proven, replicable strategies for effective organics management.
Submission Overview
We invite state and local governments, nonprofits, institutions, businesses, and other partners to submit short case studies or project summaries describing real-world examples of organics management efforts.
Each submission should provide clear, factual information about the program or project, following the framework below.
Submission & Selection
Submissions will be reviewed and voted on by the NERC Organics Management Committee. Selected case studies will be featured in the Organics Management Guide as examples of successful and innovative approaches across the Northeast and beyond.
