Community Service Food Rescue Program
Sun, Oct 05
|Knoxville
WHAT IS FOOD RESCUE? Food rescue, also called food recovery, is the practice of collecting fresh, edible food that would have otherwise gone to waste.
Time & Location
Oct 05, 2025, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Knoxville, 1837 Brandau St, Knoxville, TN 37921, USA
About the event
Food insecurity means you lack reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food.
Here are some things to know about food waste in the U.S.
Millions of pounds of excess food ends up in landfills
In 2021, in the U.S. 91 million tons of food went unsold or were uneaten.
Instead of feeding people, the disposal of wasted food leads to more waste such as the unnecessary use of water, labor and energy to produce, process, transport, prepare, store, and dispose of discarded food.
In 2021, the EPA estimated food waste at 549 pounds of food waste per person sent for disposal. The EPA has a goal to reduce this food waste to 164 pounds per person by 2030.