Spoonfuls recovered food reached Rhode Island for the first time
Massachusetts food-recovery nonprofit Spoonfuls partnered with FeedRI. Since a summer pilot, they have moved 57,000 pounds of still-good food, about 45,600 meals, into Rhode Island for the first time.
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Spoonfuls, a Massachusetts food-recovery nonprofit, has partnered with FeedRI and is sending recovered food into Rhode Island for the first time, the group reported. Since a summer pilot, the partnership has moved 57,000 pounds of still-good food, about 45,600 meals.
Those totals are what has crossed into the state since the pilot began. Recovered food is food that can still be eaten and is redirected instead of discarded.
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Spoonfuls is a Massachusetts group that saves food that is still good to eat and would otherwise be thrown away. It has partnered with FeedRI, and the food is now reaching Rhode Island for the first time. Since a summer pilot, they have moved 57,000 pounds, which Spoonfuls says is about 45,600 meals. Rumford is one of the Rhode Island places tied to the new route. The pounds and the meal estimate are what has moved since the pilot, not a single day's delivery.
- What does it mean to recover food?
- Why would edible food need a nonprofit to move it across a state line?
- How can pounds of food be turned into an estimate of meals?
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