About
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The Elmhurst College Food Recovery's Mission is to recover as much food as possible from the cafeteria every week and deliver it safely and securly to a local food shelter where it can be served to people in need and not end up in a landfill.
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Elmhurst College Food Recovery is a chapter of the Food Recovery Network, the largest student movement against food waste and hunger in America.
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In 2011, Ben Simon, Mia Zavalij and Cam Pascual, students at the University of Maryland, College Park noticed good dining hall food ending up in the trash at the end of the night. By the end of the school year, FRN at UMD had recovered 30,000 meals to DC-area partner agencies.
During the Spring 2012 semester, the second FRN chapter was founded at Brown University, and the two schools joined forces with two other campus food recovery programs at University of California, Berkeley and Pomona College.
In May 2013, the Sodexo Foundation provided FRN with founding funding to hire a full-time staff and transition into a professional nonprofit! Since then, FRN has swept the nation and made higher education the first sector where food recovery is the norm and not the exception.
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Read more at the FRN website HERE!
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1. There is enough food in the world to feed every person, yet there are millions who go hungry every day. In Chicago alone, 55 million pounds of food are thrown away each month. Think about how many people that can feed!
Source: http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/chicagoans-waste-55-million-pounds-of-food-a-month/
2. Decomposing food releases methane, which is a huge contributor to climate change. Methane is actually worse for the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. If food waste was a country, it would be the third largest contributor to climate change, behind the U.S. and China.
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