Explore food justice and reduce food waste through our food rescue program
Embark Sustainability’s
Food Rescue Program
We collect healthy yet imperfect-looking produce that does not meet the selling criteria of supermarket chains and redistribute it to Simon Fraser University (SFU) students for free or by donation. Food is collected from grocery stores and distributed at SFU Burnaby.
Stop by and grab some brain food between classes! Distribution takes place throughout each academic term and does not occur during exam periods or breaks between terms.
Embark Sustainability’s Food Rescue program connected me to new people every week. All through edible produce, and rich conversations about the food systems, and how to contribute to a more sustainable community.
Volunteering
Give a little–gain a lot!
Do you want to be a part of a food recovery initiative that reduces food waste and explores food justice? As a Food Rescue volunteer, you play a critical role in running the Food Rescue program at SFU Burnaby campus. Work with other volunteers to redistribute healthy produce to SFU students!
Now also recognized on your Co-Curricular Record (CCR), an official university document that tracks your co-curricular involvement at SFU.
Interested in joining our Food Rescue team?
DISTRIBUTION UPDATES
COVID-19 Precautions for Food Rescue
- Having Food Rescue volunteers and community members touch the produce as little as possible.
- Practicing physical distancing at all times.
- Providing an alcohol-based hand sanitizer at the Food Rescue distribution table for volunteers and community members to use.
- Sanitizing all equipment with hard surfaces, with an alcohol-based sanitizer, before and after each distribution.
- Ensuring that all volunteers wash their hands thoroughly, before, during, and after their shifts.
- Asking all Food Rescue volunteers to stay home if they are feeling sick or if they may have been exposed to someone with COVID-19.