As the BC Fruit Growers’ Association wants to keep as much edible food as possible out of landfills, it recently donated 300 bins to a local food charity. The charity, Food It Forward, has partnered with a packing house to collect cherries that do not meet market requirements, but are still safe and delicious to eat.
The bins were donated because they are small enough for volunteers to lift and load the more than 1,000 pounds of cherries daily that are deemed not good enough for the market. The bins, however, are currently being used for something else at the moment; they are transporting food for evacuees and first responders dealing with the Okanagan wildfires.
“We are pleased to support Food It Forward’s initiative and hope more packinghouses will consider donating their culled fruit,” BCFGA general manager Glen Lucas said in a press release.
Source: castanet.net