When the lights go out at a football stadium after a game, hours after fans have flooded the exits, food vendors are tasked with throwing away massive amounts of uneaten hotdogs, leftover hamburgers and bags of popcorn. According to the USDA, 133 billion pounds of food goes to waste every year – including the uneaten remains at sporting events.
Being wasteful is costly. Many men, women and children go to bed hungry every night. According to Kaitlin Bowdler, the director of sustainability for Philabundance, one in five people in the Philadelphia go hungry.
Operation Food Rescue at the NFL Draft Experience aims to lower the amount of food that is wasted and donate the leftover food to someone in need in Philadelphia this week.