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Nonprofits and private platforms push prevention and meal recovery as complements to recycling
Summary
Nonprofits (Share My Meals, Meal Recovery Coalition) and private platform Too Good To Go presented models for recovering edible food and prepared meals, recommended donor guidelines, school policies and date‑label standardization, and gave estimates of recoverable meals and economic benefits.
Several witnesses described programs and business models intended to capture edible surplus before it becomes waste and to connect surplus food to people facing food insecurity.
Karen Lemon, board chair of Share My Meals, and Helene Lanctuit, co‑chair of the Meal Recovery Coalition, described an alliance of corporations, hospitals, universities, government and nonprofits that picks up surplus prepared meals and delivers them to nonprofits and families. Share My Meals uses…
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