Food Rescue Organizations
This national organization mobilizes college students to recover food on and off of their campuses.
What is the Food Recovery Network?
The director of FRN who is driven by the understanding that people in America should not be going to bed hungry or be unsure of where their next meal is coming from.
Who is Regina Northouse?
The fraction of all human-caused annual greenhouse gas emissions that food waste creates.
What is one third?
FRN at UIC's partner agency (the organization that receives the recovered food).
What is the Franciscan Outreach Homeless Shelter?
This nonprofit organization's goal is to bridge the gap between food waste and food insecurity in Chicago and the surrounding areas.
What is Chicago Food Rescue?
The co-founder and CEO of LeanPath which encourages culinary teams to track and reduce their food waste.
Who is Andrew Shakman?
The percentage of all food wasted in the United States.
What is 40%?
UI Health, RUSH Central Kitchen, RUSH Panera, UIC Dining (SCE & JST)
This organization connects farms with surplus produce to food banks.
An activist who spends her nights uncovering the realities of waste in New York, known as the Trash Walker.
Why is Anna Sachs?
The percentage of all freshwater consumed by human activity that goes towards producing foods that never get eaten.
What is 25%?
What is 220 pounds?
This U.S.-based nonprofit works to catalyze the food system toward evidence-based action to stop wasting food.
What is ReFED (Rethink Food Waste Through Economics and Data)?
This Ghanian chef started Food for All Africa which recovers food from restaurants for food banks to distribute.
Who is Elijah Amoo Addo?
The retail value of the total amount of food that is lost before consumption.
What is $166 billion?
The total amount of food recovered, so far, in the 2024-2025 academic year.
What is 25163.53 pounds?
This regional organization has a program for retail food rescue, redistributing the goods through their community grocery and meal distributions.
What is the Greater Chicago Food Depository?
This Peruvian food waste advocate created an edible spray that prolongs the shelf-life of fresh produce.
Who is Ximena Adriazola Du-Pont?
What is 25%?
The year that FRN at UIC was started.
What is 2014?