Less than 5% of waste from Second Harvest Food Bank in Irvine now goes to landfills, reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Second Harvest Food Bank in Irvine used to budget $100,000 a year to buy cardboard boxes.
Second Harvest Food Bank CEO Claudia Bonilla Keller talks to employees and volunteers in Irvine on Tuesday, August 22, 2023, about being the first food bank in the world awarded Total Resource Use and Efficiency certification for “zero waste.” “Though it’s been a long journey, this is just the beginning of an organizational shift we are making to continually improve our sustainability efforts and care for our community at all levels,” Bonita Keller said.
The changes have a “huge ripple effect,” noted Stephanie Barger, a Newport Beach native who helped start the TRUE certification program. By changing up some supplies and rethinking the food bank’s recycling and composting strategies, fewer resources are needed to make the products, such as cardboard boxes, that support its operations. Fewer trucks are on the road to deliver those products, too, or to transport any resulting waste.
Thanks to its efforts, the food bank was recognized in a ceremony Tuesday morning with a TRUE, or Total Resource Use and Efficiency, certification, awarded by a division of the Green Business Council.
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