Food Recovery Program Ready For Launch

May 2, 2019 | 11:13 AM

The Vernon Salvation Army will launch its Food Recovery program on Monday.

Lt. Stefan Reid says the partnership with Save On Foods will provide more food to the community and mean less food waste going into the landfill.

Reid says their staff will pick-up about 60 bins of produce, meat, dairy and other items from the two local stores daily, which will be sorted and re-purposed for use by the food bank, community partners, compost and local farmers.

Reid tells Beach Radio News the food given away by the stores is classified as non-sellable.

“Sometimes the stores can’t sell produce and products that are still edible, but were able to get that out through the food bank, and the things we will receive will be great for the community.”

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Reid says they will not be giving out any food that isn’t safe to consume, with volunteers and their warehouse supervisor going through each item to make sure it is safe to eat.

He says they are excited to not just be putting food on people’s tables but also looking out to the environment as well.

“This program has been in the works for quite some time now and we are in the position to receive the food, store it properly and distribute it to many community partners as well.”

Listen to Lt. Stefan Reid explaining how the program will work:

The Salvation Army received a grant from Food Banks BC last year to purchase new refrigeration equipment as well as a brand-new state of the art refrigeration truck.

by Corey Fischer