Food Rescue Consulting - Fight hunger and food waste in your community

Fight hunger and food waste in your community

Mission

To help solve the problems of wasted food and food insecurity through the rescue and equitable redistribution of surplus edible food to people in need.

30-40%

of food goes to waste¹

149 billion

meals’ worth of food goes to landfills every year in America²

7.3 million

American children lived in food-insecure households in which children, along with adults, were food insecure in 2022³

12.8%

of U.S. Households in 2022 were food insecure⁴

Food Rescue is One Effort to Solve This

Food rescue, also called food recovery, is the practice of collecting wholesome, edible food that would have otherwise gone to waste from restaurants, grocery stores, and other food establishments and distributing it to local agencies like food pantries. Food rescue is effective because it simultaneously gets food to those who need it most and reduces wasted food, reducing the amount of emissions (methane) from surplus food in landfills.

Food Rescue Solutions

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For Cities and Counties

Food Rescue Consulting (FRC) has seven years of experience helping local jurisdictions implement organic waste and edible food recovery legislation. Specifically, Food Rescue Consulting specializes in California’s SB 1383 organics legislation. FRC can provide consultation services to aid your local jurisdiction.

For Food Pantries, Food Banks and Community Organizers

Food Rescue Consulting has co-founded and scaled equitable and sustainable surplus food programs including formal food rescue programs, pop-up pantries and community fridges. FRC can help do the same in your community.

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For Food Donors

Food Rescue Consulting has worked with food donors and generators for seven years to create safe food donation programs which help them feed the community, divert wholesome food from the landfill, avoid landfill fees, and comply with edible food legislation.

Erin Meyer has been working in the field of surplus food redistribution and food security for seven years. Equipped with degrees in biology, nutrition and sustainable food systems, she has pioneered and implemented equitable and sustainable food programs in underserved years in an effort to improve food security and to decrease food waste. She has co-created a county-wide food rescue program and launched innovative solutions to poor food access like pop-up pantries and community fridges. Additionally, she has worked with local government officials to help implement state mandated food waste reduction legislation. Her expertise and her passion for “saving the food and feeding the people” allows for communities to advance their food access and food waste goals. In an effort to help more communities save more food and feed more people, she is now offering consultations to jurisdictions, community organizations, food donors and anyone else that wants to help.

Let’s save more food together

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