Food Recovery and Distribution

How Is Food Waste a Problem in America?

• Up to 1/5th of America's food goes to waste yearly
• About 130 lbs. of food per person ends up in landfills
• The annual value of lost food is about $31 billion
• Roughly 49 million people could have been fed by those lost resources (USDA)

As a grassroots response to food waste at the retail and wholesale level, the program collects healthy perishable food from over 200 donors and is safely distributed to agencies in the Greater Triangle on refrigerated vehicles.

How Our Food Is Supplied

Food Shuttle receives food from over 220 donors such as grocery stores, catering companies, corporate cafeterias, restaurants, wholesale food brokers, vending companies, and The North Carolina State Farmers Market. The food is donated so we can donate it to the organizations in the areas that feed the needy--the soup kitchens, pantries, outreach missions, and shelters.

How We Move the Food

Inter-Faith Food Shuttle has a fleet of 11 refrigerated trucks that moves the donated food. The vans and large trucks hold six pallets of recovered food. Staff and volunteers are trained in the best practices to handle perishable food.

Who Receives the Food?

The Food Shuttle provides food to over 200 agencies and programs that serve the greater Triangle area such as shelters, soup kitchens, outreach efforts in local housing authorities and faith-based pantries.