Did you know that each year, Washington generates one million tons of food waste, including half a million tons of edible food? 🗑️🍎🌽To help prevent food waste, April 1-7, has been proclaimed as Food Waste Prevention Week. Watch this video from Washington Department of Ecology to learn how you can "Use Food Well" or visit www.UseFoodWell.org. | City of Tacoma Government

Follow @going.zero.waste for weekly Scraptastic Recipes! ⁠ ⁠ This is one of my FAVORITE meals and a dish I often bring to potlucks because the miso maple dressing is really that good! If you haven’t tried roasting cabbage, you must! I wasn’t a huge cabbage fan until I started roasting it, and now I could easily eat the whole tray. I roast mine at 400 F for about 30 minutes and it’s golden brown. THE dressing: - 2-3 Tablespoons Miso paste - Juice of 1-2 lemons - Maple syrup to your taste - Salt,

Follow @going.zero.waste for weekly scraptastic recipes. This week I'm turning watermelon rinds into watermelon jelly. I grew up with this jelly and it's tangy, bright, sweet and the perfect recipe to bridge the gap between summer and fall. This recipe is very difficult to mess up. It's pretty rustic so you can go with your feelings on this, but was made for half a quarter of a large seeded watermelon or a whole small seedless. You'll need: - peeled watermelon rinds - you just want to get the to