Turning Surplus Food into Millions of Meals
Stat: 40%: Up to 40% of the food supply in the United States is wasted each year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Story: When you see the perfect displays of produce in grocery stores, do you ever wonder whether it's all sold before it spoils? It isn't, and stores often pay to send unpurchased produce to landfills. In this episode of "After the Fact," Evan Ehlers, founder of Sharing Excess, shares how his organization is working to solve what he calls "the world's dumbest problem."
As a college student in Philadelphia, Ehlers saw how this problem of food waste could be…
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