Each tier of this pyramid focuses on different management strategies to reduce the amount of wasted food, or to use it. The first preferred option is simply to prevent waste by not creating it. Nonetheless, because there always will be a certain amount of food wasted, the EPA’s pyramid proposes redistribution of any excess food to feed the poor and needy or, if that is not possible, to feed animals. Lower priority recommendations are to divert the organic food waste to industrial use, e.g., for biofuel production or composting; and the least preferred alternative covers dumping wasted food onto landfills.