Takoma Park’s “purple community bins,” which began before the pandemic as a way for a woman to share her dumpster-dive finds, have become a lifeline for families and seniors in the community.
drops off $7,500 worth of rescued food donated by Trader Joe’s, Wegmans and Imperfect Foods to three community-bin pantries in Takoma Park, including Watson’s, which receives 80 percent of the food, said the nonprofit group’s executive director, Roxanne Yamashita.The people most in need arrive on the Thursday and Saturday delivery days, Watson said. Others in the community swing by at other times because “they also want to contribute to stopping the waste of food,” she said.
“This is super great. Lara makes sure the food is shared equally among everyone in the community,” said Francisca Guerrero, 67, who was a housekeeper at a hotel in D.C. but hasn’t worked since March 2020. For Watson, a recovering alcoholic who has been sober since July 16, 2007, the bins have become a personal lifeline, too, as so much else has fallen apart.She used to dumpster-dive between her jobs shopping and delivering for Shipt customers. But last summer, her long-standing back pain became so severe that she stopped working in July, and dumpster-diving became impossible. An MRI in August showed two herniated discs.
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