Food Rescue Calculator

What If Your School Rescued food?

What If Your School Rescued Food?

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Adjust the slider to equal the number of students in your classroom | school etc. to see the estimated impact of rescuing unopened school food instead of feeding it to landfills.

My K-12 Food Rescue Calculator

Students: 20 students
Time: One School Year

Adjust the slider to equal the number of students in your classroom | school etc. to see the impact of rescuing unopened school food instead of feeding it to landfills.

Food Items:

1

Meals:

1

Greenhouse Gasses:

1 lbs. CO2e

How many miles would I have to drive to
produce a similar amount of greenhouse gasses?

1

Fill out the form, then click "Sharable Graphic" to receive an infographic with your results.

Created by Food Rescue Inc.

*This calculator is based on data collected by our free, Food Rescue Logging Tool. Since 2016 over 400 schools have logged data using our tool.

The case study told us that each student would have thrown away approximately 3.6 items of unwanted, unopened and unpeeled items per week. The calculations above include 5 items = 1 meal and 1 lbs. CO2e = (Items/4)/2.

Link: Food Waste Estimates Based on This Case Study

Our new system has been working for us up here in Alaska. From the first day it was a hit!!! I was expecting some resistance from teachers who don't care to have food in the classrooms and also problems with garbage on the playground but.....none so far. The high school "hungry boys" love finding the fixings for PB & jelly sandwiches from the K-5 crew. A huge problem, that I cannot fix at this time is the recess timing. It IS after lunch and a LOT of kids will come in and dump their trays just to get outside. Maybe next year. All in all... it was welcomed as a great idea and the school news crew is going to be doing a section on your program...hopefully before school closes for the summer but if not we will be off to a great start next year. We are out the 27th of this month. I'm currently working on getting a summer food program started because I know a lot of our kids do not get to eat well at home. This has only been my 2nd year running the kitchen and I've made MANY changes to our waste problem. I've been in contact with a member of the Sustainable Southeast group that is working on a partnership with the tribal authority to help run an aquaponics site. Also...UAS in Sitka is doing a study on using recycled cardboard to grow mushrooms!!!! He is getting me that contact info soon. I'm soooo excited because mushrooms are seriously my passion!!! I'm already setting up to grow shiitake and other gourmet (but really medicinal) mushrooms at home using alder that has already been dropped around the island. I'm also going to set up at the school to sell and actually make money with our lunch program. I'm looking forward to working with K-12 Food Rescue your fabulous project and help change the habits of our locals. Please feel free to contact me with any more info you may have or just to check on our progress.

Sincerely,

Tricia Clough

STATE DIRECTOR'S OF STUDENT LEADERSHIP