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Northshore November 2018

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74 NOVEMBER 2018 / I N - D E P T H / Rachel Orchard, marketing associate at Eataly Boston, says the pickup service has been "a huge help for us because we had been having trouble finding a partner that could come on the weekends." "As a result of this partnership we've been able to divert a huge amount of our bread that would've otherwise been composted on Saturdays—sometimes 100 to 120 loaves in one pick up—which they instead distribute to several shelters," she says. When it comes to the dual problem of food need and food waste, the numbers are staggering. Siles points to statistics from the Greater Boston Food Bank showing that in addition to the homeless population, one in ten Eastern Massachusetts residents—many of them children and the elderly—are at risk for hunger, including working and middle-class individuals and families. Sixty-one percent have had to choose between food and utilities. "More and more people are relying on surplus prepared food donation to make ends meet," Siles says. On the flip side, $160 billion worth of food is wasted annually in the United States, according to the Department Dana Siles is the New England coordinator for RLC.

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