TMZ.com
There’s a large downside with meals going to waste in America as thousands and thousands of individuals with meals insecurity undergo, however some Brown University grads have discovered an superior method to flip issues round.
The Farmlink Project is connecting farms with huge oversupplies of meals with meals banks across the nation. It’s lightyears simpler than discovering a restaurant right here and there that’s throwing away completely good meals.
Co-CEO Ben Collier tells TMZ … he and his buddies from Brown shelved huge careers in funding banking and different areas to discover a higher approach to assist the hungry.
Ben says farms routinely throw out thousands and thousands of kilos of additional meals, however he and his cohorts are altering that.
He cites one instance of a farm that had 40,000 additional kilos of onions … which Farmlink moved to an L.A. meals financial institution.
The org. had 35 truckloads of avocados in Pennsylvania shortly shipped to an space meals financial institution. The phrase “shortly” is the important thing, since avocados spoil shortly.
So far Farmlink has moved 85 MILLION kilos of meals and offered 71 MILLION meals.
The org is searching for donations … a buck gives 20 meals — 24 kilos of meals.
Lots of scholars have beliefs they discuss, however taking motion is a complete completely different story. Ben and Co. have completed simply that. Congrats.