SDUSD Recycling Program

​LOVE FOOD NOT WASTE is a food recovery and rescue program of SDUSD. Our goal is to feed people, NOT landfills.  Often times after offering our students healthy, nutritious meals, there may be some prepared food that’s leftover. In the past, most of this food was destined for the landfill. But then that changed…

Through our Love Food Not Waste program, food from several school production kitchens and their sattelite school kitchens is rescued and provided to local hunger relief organizations.  These organizations rescue packaged and individually wrapped (IW) food items in order to extend a meal to those facing food insecurity in and around our school communities.  As capacity allows, we will add additional items for rescue.   We are also working to identify additional food rescue agencies that can accept food from our schools.

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Since the program’s inception in September 2016 through April 2024 more than 562,400 pounds of food was rescued from school meals, equating to 445,300 meals provided to our local community!