EP. 035 Becca Sufrin 412 Food Rescue: Celebrating Pittsburgh's food rescue heroes work fighting food waste.

Becca Sufrin didn’t intend to become a Food Rescue Hero when she started her Repair the World fellowship in education justice. But after her first food run with 412 Food Rescue, she realized a new passion for food justice and mobilizing volunteers to achieve food security. “I feel a huge responsibility for my community,” Becca says. “I feel that, as a person with immense privilege and opportunity, it’s my job to pursue issues and pursue work that benefits our community. And that has a lot to do with empowering people who want to be involved.”

When grocery stores, restaurants, wholesalers, and even farmer’s markets in the Pittsburgh area have surplus food, they contact 412 Food Rescue to repurpose it. And as of this writing, 412 Food Rescue has saved over 6 million pounds of surplus food, which is equivalent to over 5 million meals, and almost 3.5 million pounds of carbon dioxide emissions.

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