Transfernation has developed a platform to deliver leftover party food to homeless shelters, connecting social institutions with corporate events to ensure that the extra food is re-purposed rather than thrown away. Food waste is as much a problem in the U.S. as the fact that millions of citizens go without meals every day. One organization aims at bridging this gap by coordinating with businesses and events who have extra food and bringing it to shelters and food banks in need. Transfernation utilizes volunteers via the SocialEffort app, reducing the amount of food that ends up in dumpsters and bringing it to people’s plates. Watch: Hunger Is An Outdated Problem Currently a Manhattan-based start-up, Transfernation began in 2013 and now has a staff of three plus some interns. Fundraisers in the month of December are hoped to expand the service to other NYC boroughs, and eventually nationwide. Shockingly, New York restaurants alone throw away a half a million tons of food per year. Samir Goel, one of the NYU seniors who founded the organization, described to Bedford + Bowery growing up in a home where plates were cleaned at every meal. He says, “And as I grew up I got really […]
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