{"id":3011,"date":"2013-02-13T14:47:28","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T18:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentmagazine\/?p=3011"},"modified":"2013-05-07T14:56:59","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T18:56:59","slug":"did-you-know-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentmagazine\/2013\/02\/13\/did-you-know-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Did You Know?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Student Food Rescue saves over 100,000 pounds of food a year.<\/h2>\n<p><object id=\"buniverseplayer\" data=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/buniverse\/interface\/swf\/player.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" height=\"355\" width=\"550\"><param value=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/buniverse\/interface\/swf\/player.swf\" name=\"movie\" \/><param value=\"true\" name=\"allowfullscreen\" \/><param value=\"always\" name=\"allowscriptaccess\" \/><param value=\"viralbu.videoid=2BIeYSL3&amp;viralbu.loc=3\" name=\"flashvars\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/buniverse\/youtube\/?v=2BIeYSL3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/buniverse\/data\/thumbs\/1305\/31d9063bef69cee7ea83247e984bbd1a717e83e3_1602469852\/thumb_l.jpg\" border=\"0\" height=\"310\" width=\"550\" \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Ever wonder what happens to the dented cans that no one picks off the shelf at Whole Foods, or all the leftover bagels after Panera closes for the night? If it\u2019s in Boston, there\u2019s a chance it\u2019ll be snapped up by BU\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csc\/opportunities\/community-service-center-programs\/sfr\/\">Student Food Rescue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of dozens of programs run by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csc\/\">BU Community Service Center<\/a>, the Student Food Rescue team makes weekly runs to Boston-area restaurants, bakeries, grocery stores, and just about any other food establishment they can imagine (including BU\u2019s food courts), and reallocates donated leftovers to local food pantries, soup kitchens, and homeless shelters. The rescue, administered entirely by over 100 students on their own free time, runs around 21 trips each week, collecting an average of over 3,500 pounds of food a week\u2014adding up to between 100,000 and 150,000 pounds of food redistributed each year.<\/p>\n<p>The students accept day-old bakery items, as well as overstocked boxes and cans that may have dents but are fine to eat. (They never salvage expired food.) The participating students commit one to two hours of their time each week and can go on trial van runs to get a feel for the program before diving in.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3092\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3092\" style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/parentmagazine\/files\/2013\/02\/10-2642-FOODRESCUE-0021.jpg\" alt=\"10-2642-FOODRESCUE-002\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3092\" height=\"311\" width=\"570\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3092\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Student Food Rescue team member Tina Gruene (CAS&#039;12). Photo by Chitose Suzuki for BU Photography; above video by Robin Berghaus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Student Food Rescue saves over 100,000 pounds of food a year. Watch this video on YouTube Ever wonder what happens to the dented cans that no one picks off the shelf at Whole Foods, or all the leftover bagels after Panera closes for the night? If it\u2019s in Boston, there\u2019s a chance it\u2019ll be snapped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4966,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8953,8952],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4966"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3011"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3013,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011\/revisions\/3013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}