Diverting meals from the trash to a plate helps to alleviate food insecurity and combat the climate crisis.
Meet Replate, Fraîche, and Harlem Grown:
Replate is working to create a world that doesn't expire. A recipient of both our staff giving and in-kind donation programs, Replate connects organizations with surplus food to communities facing food insecurity. Caterers, restaurants, farmers markets and other food generators can schedule a pickup with the Replate team, and they will get the food to nearby nonprofits.
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One business working with Replate in NYC is Fraîche. Creator of farm fresh, ready-to-eat meals, Fraîche is all about connecting farm and city – respecting the people that grow the food, supporting the people that serve it, and nourishing the people that eat it. All of Fraîche’s surplus meals get redistributed instead of tossed. And, by partnering with Replate, Fraîche has been able to donate 5,092 meals to date, saving 12,525 pounds of food from being wasted.
Rather than getting tossed, these meals get redistributed to nonprofits like Harlem Grown. This nonprofit utilizes community fridges across Harlem to get food to those in need. They also utilize abandoned neighborhood lots where they teach the city’s youth how to grow their own food. In Harlem there are dozens of fast food restaurants, but no places with healthy, affordable food. Harlem Grown is helping the neighborhood become healthier and more self-sufficient.
From Set to Street: Meet Every Day Action
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There's a lot of food waste in the city of angels. Every Day Action helps eliminate this on film sets all over Los Angeles by packaging up hundreds of extra gourmet prepared meals and delivering them directly to people who need it: local unhoused and underprivileged communities.
Founded by Hillary Cohen and Samantha Luu, two Directors Guild of America Assistant Directors who were hoping to change the way Hollywood sees food waste. Both women, having worked over 10 years on sets, have continually asked why the leftover gourmet food from catering is thrown out and not donated. They both were always met with the same standard excuse- it is too complicated and dangerous, it is best if we just throw it out.
Founded by Hillary Cohen and Samantha Luu, two Directors Guild of America Assistant Directors who were hoping to change the way Hollywood sees food waste. Both women, having worked over 10 years on sets, have continually asked why the leftover gourmet food from catering is thrown out and not donated. They both were always met with the same standard excuse- it is too complicated and dangerous, it is best if we just throw it out.
Sam and Hillary have decided that with so many people living on the streets in Southern California, that Hollywood needs to make a change. In an industry that is pushing the envelope on going green; proud of the plastics and paper one might save; Sam and Hillary are asking: but what about the people?!
While handing out food to someone in need is NOT illegal, Sam and Hillary have laid the groundwork for those to donate who are still skeptical. They formed their 501c3 with liability insurance and offer a contract any studio or production can sign; fully releasing the production of any legal ownership or responsibility of the food excess.
While handing out food to someone in need is NOT illegal, Sam and Hillary have laid the groundwork for those to donate who are still skeptical. They formed their 501c3 with liability insurance and offer a contract any studio or production can sign; fully releasing the production of any legal ownership or responsibility of the food excess.
