iPads Help FareShare Rescue Good Food from Landfill
Photos: FareShare “Approximately 28,000 supermarkets worth of food goes to landfill every year in Victoria,” suggests FareShare CEO Marcus Godinho. FareShare is a food rescue service in Melbourne, Australia, who were a joint winners of the 2010 Premier’s Sustainability Awards. So far this year they’ve saved 468 tonnes of food that would’ve otherwise been sent to landfill. Then 3,000 volunteers have cooked 1,114,461 meals for the needy, and doing so FareShare has supported 130 charities. As those impressive figures suggest, this is no ordinary do-gooder group, but a well-oiled, switched-on, dynamic organisation…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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iPads Help FareShare Rescue Good Food from Landfill
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