Back to School Backpack Bash
Waste Not Want Not was delighted to provide groceries and the food for the lunches at the recent Back to School Backpack Bash. Available for free were backpacks full of school supplies, kid’s clothing and shoes, snow-cones, haircuts, bikes, groceries, information on access to free medical care and how to apply for medical insurance. Not to … Read more
Chefs to the Rescue
Every year in the United States, 40% of our edible food ends up in landfills while one in six Americans is food insecure. To fund our efforts to resolve this paradox while highlighting these statistics, Waste Not Want Not has introduced CHEFS TO THE RESCUE.
Local Nonprofit Connects the Dots Between Food Waste and Hunger
“While the rest of us are just getting ready for the day, enjoying our morning coffee, or commuting to work, volunteers at a small workshop garage in Orange Park feverishly sort cinnamon rolls, cookies, chips, and other packaged edible items into paper grocery bags. Other volunteers at the facility load pallets onto a pickup truck, … Read more
January is usually a slow month for food rescue, BUT
not this year! Based on our preliminary numbers for the month, our hard-working volunteers have rescued close to 161,ooo pounds of food so far this year. In addition to the usual baked items and restaurant foods, we also rescued two pallet-loads of frozen mango smoothie mix, 160 cases of Brussel sprouts, and 8,000 pounds of … Read more
4,200 Meals a Day!
Waste Not volunteers rescued and delivered 1,936,063 pounds of food last year to people struggling to feed themselves and their families. That’s 4,200 meals a day, 362 days last year! Our volunteers donated more than 500 hours a week to multiply every donor’s gift, providing 10 meals to those in need for each dollar donated. Donors and volunteers: together you filled … Read more
We are in the NEWS!
Check out the St. Augustine Catholic Article July/August issue. Mailed to 53,000 households in 16 counties. Estimated readership 148,000. St. Augustine Catholic Article
No volunteers = No Waste Not Want Not
Waste Not Want Not volunteers rescue food for those in need 362 days a year. They work hard to put food in the hands of those in need. For a taste of what volunteers do, read these excerpts from our nomination of JAE as the Celebrate Clay 2011 Outstanding Community Volunteer of the Year: Waste Not Want … Read more
What Food Waste Costs You and the Environment
To see how food waste affects your wallet, our water supply, the demand for oil, and the environment, check out this awesome infographic: http://colorado.doortodoororganics.com/blog/?p=1833
Today’s Special: Food Rescued
Volunteers gleaning with the Society of Saint Andrew delivered 3300 pounds of broccoli today.