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Meal-recovery groups, food-rescue app tout prevention and donation strategies to capture prepared food surplus
Summary
Nonprofits and private platforms told legislators that a large share of New Jersey’s surplus prepared meals can be captured through donation, markdown sales and coordinated county planning; Meal Recovery Coalition aims to scale recovery and pushed for date-label reform and tax incentives.
Representatives of food-rescue groups, a multinational surplus-food marketplace and corporate donors told the joint environment committees that capturing edible surplus prepared food is a cost-effective way to reduce waste and feed people.
Karen Lemon, board chair of Share My Meals, described the nonprofit’s model of collecting prepared meals from corporations, universities and hospitals and distributing them via volunteers and a tracking system that uses reusable trays and barcodes to ensure safety and traceability. Lemon…
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