UW students bring food recovery program to campus

Nina Selipsky • Feb 6, 2018

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h1>UW students bring food recovery program to campus</h1>
                <h2><p>University of Washington student Diane Bolme recently launched an effort to tackle the issues of food waste and hunger in the Seattle area, starting a local chapter of Food Recovery Network on her campus. The program exists on 140 campuses across the U.S., and takes high-quality food from schools</p></h2>
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            <p>University of Washington student Diane Bolme recently launched an effort to tackle the issues of food waste and hunger in the Seattle area, starting a local chapter of Food Recovery Network on her campus. The program exists on 140 campuses across the U.S., and takes high-quality food from schools and surrounding areas that would otherwise go to waste and donates it to nearby shelters. Bolme works at Canlis, an iconic Seattle restaurant, and noticed a significant amount of food being thrown out as a result of people not finishing everything on their plates. UW students are now able to pick up food from restaurants like Canlis and Panera and deliver it to Seattle's Union Gospel Mission and Angeline's Women Shelter. The group hopes to begin working with UW to recover food from dining halls on campus.</p>
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University of Washington student Diane Bolme recently launched an effort to tackle the issues of food waste and hunger in the Seattle area, starting a local chapter of Food Recovery Network on her campus. The program exists on 140 campuses across the U.S., and takes high-quality food from schools and surrounding areas that would otherwise go to waste and donates it to nearby shelters. Bolme works at Canlis, an iconic Seattle restaurant, and noticed a significant amount of food being thrown out as a result of people not finishing everything on their plates. UW students are now able to pick up food from restaurants like Canlis and Panera and deliver it to Seattle's Union Gospel Mission and Angeline's Women Shelter. The group hopes to begin working with UW to recover food from dining halls on campus.

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By Nina Selipsky

Nina Selipsky is an editorial intern at Crosscut. She is a senior at Lakeside School in Seattle, where she is an editor and writer for the school newspaper. Nina spent last summer working with a non-p