FoodMesh
An innovative service launched to help eliminate food waste while providing healthy food to the needy is now expanding to three new markets in BC.
FoodMesh was born three years ago with the mission to feed people and otherwise make use of food waste headed for landfills. Co-founder and CEO Jessica Regan was in Maple Ridge in early June to announce the program’s arrival in Pitt Meadows, Maple Ridge and Mission. With Save-On Foods and other retailers on board, perishable, organic food products not being sold still find useful homes.
“Food is not waste,” Regan says. “There is a natural order of it.”
Recovered food is provided to foodbanks and soup kitchens first. What is not suitable for human consumption goes to farmers as feed. Anything left over is given to industrial operations for production of bio-gas and other uses.
FoodMesh is a tech platform for food businesses and charities to safely divert surplus food to the highest end use. FoodMesh connects, coordinates, and tracks food recovery through two apps and services: