If you often find you have surplus food, do you know where it’s needed? Turns out there’s an app for that.
Four thousand tons of food waste is generated in Los Angeles County every day.
The environmental impact of that waste is significant, but people like Cari Golden want to make a positive impact with that surplus.
“Being able to eat should not be a meritocracy,” said Golden, the founder of Lov Kitchen.
Restaurants and grocery stores have surplus food to give and non-profits like Lov Kitchen can use it, but the challenge is often connecting the source with the provider in a timely manner. That’s where Careit, a free online marketplace, tries to help.
“Careit is actually more of the network of all of the different types of food rescue agencies and services coming together so that everybody, for free, can donate their food and get it rescued,” says Careit co-founder Alyson Schill.
It’s estimated that only 2% of available, edible …