Nice News - Food banks play a crucial role in keeping communities fed across the globe. Another vital but lesser-known benefit? They’re helping to fight climate change, with a recent impact report outlining the link between food banks and a reduction in carbon emissions. Breaking down the numbers, food banks associated with The Global FoodBanking Network, or GFN, provided 1.7 billion meals to over 40 million people last year. That’s the equivalent of mitigating an estimated 1.8 million metric tons of carbon dioxide.
Without these organizations, perfectly edible ingredients — recovered
from farms, grocery stores, and other food businesses — would head
straight to a landfill, where they’d create greenhouse gas emissions and
squander the efforts that went into producing the food in the first
place (think: water use, land use, transportation costs, and more). Instead, food banks come to the rescue and redirect those ingredients to nourish people in need, addressing inequality and helping the environment all at once.
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