Denver Nonprofit We Don’t Waste Recovered Nearly 4,000 Tons of Food in 2017

We Don’t Waste, a Denver-based nonprofit organization started by Executive Director Arlan Preblud in 2010, collected and delivered almost 4,000 tons of food in 2017. The group collects food that would otherwise go to waste from places like Mile High Stadium and Coors Field and delivers it to shelters and food banks in the area.

We Don’t Waste delivered nearly 30 million servings of food in 2017, and last November, the organization moved into a new office with more room to store food.

The Denver Post has more information:

For We Don’t Waste, the sum of mercy is found in a simple equation: Forty percent of the food produced in the U.S. is wasted, according to the National Resources Defense Council, while one out of 10 Coloradans is “food insecure.” We Don’t Waste “rescues” food, as the group calls it, so it can settle in bellies instead of landfills.

The volume it moves is staggering. In 2017, We Don’t Waste provided nearly 30 million servings — the equivalent of 10 million meals — to food banks, homeless shelters and other recipient partners who serve the hungry in Colorado. It also partners with Nation to Nation, a Loveland ministry that transports food and clothing to the Lakota Sioux at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, which has the lowest per capita income in the U.S.

“There’s nothing more pure and satisfying than helping someone eat,” said We Don’t Waste driver Matthew Karm. “We are fortunate and get to fill our cups every day. I’m honored to be a part of something as magical and human as this.”

Read the full story here.