Waste Less Solutions is a nonprofit dedicated to the education, prevention and diversion of food waste in Utah.  As part of our mission, we operate a food rescue program in Salt Lake and Utah counties to ensure edible surplus food gets to people in need rather than ending up in landfills.  Food wasting in our landfills emits methane gas which is 23x worse for our environment than carbon dioxide. Additionally, there are approximately 500,000 people who go hungry in Utah every year, so it does not make sense that edible food is thrown away. 

Waste Less Solutions solves the logistical problem of excess food in one place and not enough food in another.  We rescue food from caterers, cafeterias, small restaurants, food distributors, farmers markets as well as from backyard gardens.  Our volunteers use their own cars and our smartphone app to locate and pick up food and take it to our nonprofit partners who can distribute to their under-served clientele.

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To date, we have rescued 600,000 pounds of food which is the equivalent of 500,000 meals for people in need.  We are the only organization of its kind in Utah and without us thousands of pounds of edible food would end up in the landfill.  If you are a food organization or a business with a cafeteria or on-site catering we’d love to partner with you to rescue your surplus food.  Additionally, we are always looking for more enthusiastic volunteers to help rescue food, help us locate more food donors as well as to help us grow our organization.