Diverting Unsold Food from Full Landfills to Hungry Tummies
WORTH WINNING A FOOD FIGHT
onathan Bloom speaks to college students around the U.S. explaining how fighting food waste requires changing be- liefs and behaviors about food. “Recognize that taste should trump appearance, and don’t be so concerned with superfi- cialities,” is a leading message. He cites replicable counter- measures like Hungry Harvest and Imperfect Produce,both predicated upon giving “ugly produce” a second chance. Based in Washington, D.C., and San Francisco’s Bay Area, respectively, these businesses offer low-cost home delivery of surplus produce, much of which is rejected for not meeting grocery stores’ high cosmetic standards.
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Here are more examples of the community pioneers working to divert food from overstuffed landfills to people.
Daily Table (
DailyTable.org) purchases excess food
from growers, manufacturers and supermarkets to provide healthy food at fast-food prices for populations in need. The Dorchester, Massachusetts, retail grocery store offers fresh produce and grocery items, plus ready-to-cook and grab-n-go prepared meals. Fruitcycle (
TheFruitcycle.com) makes healthy dried
snacks from produce that would otherwise be tossed. The Washington, D.C.-area business also provides jobs for for- merly incarcerated, homeless or otherwise disadvantaged women. Food Cowboy (
FoodCowboy.com) reroutes food reject-
ed by distributors. Truck drivers use a mobile app to com- municate availability of such produce and find a charity or compost site to accept it. Re-Nuble (
Re-Nuble.com) transforms food waste into affordable, organic fertilizer for hydroponic growing, thus contributing a solution to hunger. BluApple (
TheBluApple.com) makes a plastic, fruit- shaped device that can triple the shelf life of refrigerated food. It absorbs ethylene, a naturally occurring gas that ac- celerates spoilage.
Shedding late-summer tears for the end of cherry season. Patiently and hopefully waiting for pumpkin pie season.
~Terri Guillemets
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