A Bay Area organization is keeping food from filling landfills by delivering excess food from supermarkets to nonprofits and pantries.
Most people see expiration dates as the end, but for Will Dittmar, they're just the beginning. 'We waste enough food to fill Oracle Stadium on a daily basis. It's unforgivable,' he said.The Executive Director of an organization called Extra Food, Dittmar collects groceries from supermarkets in San Francisco that would otherwise head to the landfill and delivers them to local nonprofits and pantries.About a third of the U.S. food supply goes uneaten.
'There has to be effective enforcement on the back end to make sure that there's the carrot and the stick,' he said. Alexa Kielty, the Zero Waste Coordinator at San Francisco's Environment Department, said the city is giving businesses until the end of the year to comply with the law.'You don't want to rush it because what you're going to end up with is organizations receiving food that may not be as fresh as we'd like it to be,' she explained.
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