IRAQ Veteran Battles School Food Waste: Gets Fired!

We were recently contacted by Arnold Villalobos, who was reportedly fired for re-directing fruit that  would have been thrown away in his school to athletes he was coaching after school .  Arnold is a Marine Corps and veteran of the Iraq war. We support Arnold's efforts to preserve nutritious school food from being disposed of in a landfill, and have provided him with resources from our site to help perhaps enact change in his school district.  You can see Arnold's story below, as well as his inquiry below.  The school is not commenting,  and there are of course procedures that must be followed to preserve school food, but we are hopeful whether or not Arnold is ever hired back, that the district will examine the school food waste Issue as other California schools have, including The Oakland Unified School District.   ​I spoke with Arnold on the phone, and he is hopeful his story will lead to change across America, perhaps inspiring adding to the dialog about school food waste

http://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/ReduceWaste/Schools/Models/Districts.htm

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My school and district actually just put me on suspension last week. Due to collecting bananas, apples and oranges that were going to be thrown away. What I did is collected the fruit and distributed the fruit with staff to eat at school and my athletes after school that wanted some. How do i go about fixing this problem. I really need to go back for my kids. I thought I was doing a good deed.