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K-12 Food Rescue Online School Food Waste Tracking Log

4/29/2016

Food Rescue is excited to announce our versatile free online tracking tool for cafeteria managers, students, Eco clubs, teachers, or food pantry volunteers to track the impact of your efforts on the environment and hunger relief. The tool is valuable to menu planning as well, as it will demonstrate the items that are being wasted and are unwanted the most frequently. It will print out monthly and yearly reports, and stores you schools data on the cloud. You can receive your free online tracking tool below.

Free Online K-12 Food Rescue Tracking Tool

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Pike Township School Sets Food Collection Record

4/25/2016

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Last week I had the opportunity to represent Food Rescue in the Go Green Earth Day event at New Augusta South School in Pike Township. Pike just launched a Food Rescue program April 11th, and New Augusta was the pilot school. When I got there to set up, I found a display waiting for me put together by Ms. Wallace’s 5th grade students. New Augusta was not only participating, they were fully engaged in the program!
The exhibit displayed food waste facts as well as pictures of the kids hard at work. The most shocking item on the board was the number of items collected. One school, one week 2,636 items! I couldn’t believe my eyes! That's a Food Rescue record. So now, all of those cartons of milk, yogurt, string cheese and cereal bars to name a few are nourishing people facing food insecurity instead of feeding a landfill.

This all came about because of the passion and persistence of teacher Kristie Wallace and her students who are already learning food is not trash. They are backed by a food service team who made sure this program was established and a principal and assistant principal who not only support Food Rescue but have asked what more they can do.

The class has agreed to write a guest blog so you can hear from them first hand but in the meantime, I invite you to look at what they have accomplished in just one week and ask yourself what is your school or your child’s school doing? What is happening to the food that is unopened and unwanted? Is it helping others or is it hurting our environment? I applaud the efforts going on at New Augusta and the student leaders who are emerging in the process and I can’t wait to see where their Food Rescue program goes from here!!

All my best,

Jennifer Brilliant
Lead Program Director
Food Rescue

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IRAQ Veteran Battles School Food Waste: Gets Fired!

4/15/2016

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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.

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Massachusetts Superintendent says School Food is Not Trash!

4/13/2016

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Check out this amazing video! The Andover School District in MA and the work of Carina Schusterman and Claire Stocker has inspired the North Andover School District in MA to jump on board the K-12 Food Rescue revolution! Superintendent Dr. Jennifer Price is even the spokesperson in this video!

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