Recently, under the direction of catering chef Adam Kreisel, volunteers turned donated vegetables and steak trimmed from restaurant meals into steak teriyaki for 60 low-income families.
Mandatory Credit: KSL
Stories this photo appears in:
Utah woman starts nonprofit to prevent food waste
It’s estimated Americans will throw out more than 200 million pounds of perfectly good turkey meat this year, most of it after Thanksgiving. Statistics like that prompted a Utah business executive to leave her career a few years ago and start a new one: rescuing food. Dana Williamson founded the nonprofit Waste Less Solutions, which tries to be the connection between restaurants and other entities with extra food…and community organizations that need it.
