Food Scrap Management

Restaurants and Grocery Stores

Save money, enhance your public image and help your community!

Instead of throwing away your left over, outdated or slightly damaged (but still edible) food, donate it to your local food bank! As an owner or manager of a business, you can:

Save money

Don’t use expensive dumpster space for edible food.

• Instead of paying for waste hauling services for edible food, food banks can pick up food for FREE.
• Instead of using up expensive shelf space for those items that just aren’t selling, but are perfectly edible, you can donate the food to make room for new items.

Enhance your public image

Everyone appreciates a good Samaritan. By donating edible food, you prove that you’re a money-wise and caring member of the business community.

Provide community support

Local patrons know that your business is committed to helping those in need.

Claim tax benefits

Businesses may write off food donations on their tax forms (consult a tax advisor for details).

Be protected

The Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act (Public Law 104-210) protects those who donate food in good faith from liability.

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Last updated: November 01, 2007