Dive Summary:
- Every team in the National Hockey League (NHL) is participating in "Rock and Wrap It Up" (RWU), a group which uses volunteers to assist in food recovery across 500 cities nationwide.
- RWU is recognized for recycling 100 million pounds of food and is participating in the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) "Food Recovery Challenge" to combat hunger and reduce waste.
- Uneaten food from event venues, hotels, corporate meetings, political rallies and schools is wrapped or boxed and delivered to shelters and charities.
From the article:
For example, in addition to the concession stands for football fans attending games at Meadowlands Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, the New York Giants corporate staff also feeds the officials, players, front office staff and assorted behind-the-scenes employees. Allison Stangeby, community director of the team, said she looked at all the leftover food one day, and realized that she should do something with it.
The RWU Program helped. For the last six years, representatives boxed up all the leftover meals in the locker rooms and corporate offices following Giants games—which over the span of a football season totals nearly 10,000 meals—and delivered them to the Bowery Mission, a New York City charity. [...]
Food waste accounted for 14.5% of municipal solid waste in 2011, according to the latest EPA figures.
