Food Rescue Hero: Salvaging Food Waste to End Hunger

04/22/21 • 31 min

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Food Rescue Hero gets volunteers to pick up excess food from restaurants and grocers and deliver it to people who need it. Founder and CEO Leah Lizarondo shares her journey creating a tech tool that says it has rescued some 50 million pounds of food.

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