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Eliminate Food Waste and Hunger
24% of landfills is food waste. 24%! Help us to minimize the good food that ends up in landfills and help us feed the nearly one million Arizonans struggling to find their next meal.
We offer two FREE programs to donate your business’ excess food. One is our Grocery Rescue - when you know you have more routine and larger donations. The other is MealConnect which is for those sporadic donations - you don’t know when you’ll have food to donate, but want to be prepared to give when you do - MealConnect is your best bet.
Grocery Rescue
Are you a major grocery store? Restaurant? Hotel? Caterer? Do you have more than 300 pounds of food on a regular basis?
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Grocery Rescue may just be for you.
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Developed for food businesses that have larger donations, Grocery Rescue is our main program.
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Food cannot have been served to the public and must be temperature controlled. Refrigerated items should be cooled down to 41 degrees or below. Frozen items are to be maintained at less than 32 degrees. Cold food (such as potato salads, pre-cut fruit, etc.) cannot be accepted over 55 degrees. We refuse food that is smelly, slimy, moldy, or wilted.
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If your business is ready to be a part of the solution to food waste and hunger sign up here.
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Have more questions?
480-625-7758
Email: foodrescue@wastenotaz.org
MealConnect
Are you looking to make a one-time food donation? Do you have less than 150 pounds of food to give?
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MealConnect is the perfect option.
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Developed to capture smaller amounts of excess food that are given sporadically, MealConnect is our secondary program that helps us keep as much good food out the landfill as possible.
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Food cannot have been served to the public and must be temperature controlled. Refrigerated items should be cooled down to 41 degrees or below. Frozen items are to be maintained at less than 32 degrees. Cold food (such as potato salads, pre-cut fruit, etc.) cannot be accepted over 55 degrees. We refuse food that is smelly, slimy, moldy, or wilted.
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If you're ready to be a part of the solution to food waste and hunger sign up here.
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Have more questions?
480-625-7758
Email: foodrescue@wastenotaz.org
Why Donate?
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Worried About Liability?
The Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act protects donors from liability when food and grocery products are donated in good faith to nonprofits who feed those in need.
To be eligible for this protection, food donors must simply abide by the State of Arizona packaging and labeling requirements.
**Want to see the types of agencies your food will be going to? Click here!**