Food Waste into an Ice Cream?

Food Waste into an Ice Cream?

  A big scoop of ice cream with streaks of sweet apple rum? Sounds delicious, right? But, what if those flavours were 'secondhand'? An ice cream chain in Portland, Oregon called Salt & Straw is featuring “rescued food” flavours in their June 2017 seasonal menu in a small batch. This is done because wasting food is actually a huge problem while plastic spread in our water and pollution in our air. A 2016 study in the journal found that we actually produce more than enough amount of food to feed all the people in the world. And the problem is, a lot of people didn’t finish their meal and throw their food so their food are being wasted. Kim Malek, the founder of Salt & Straw, in it to “swipe out hunger”. While their ice cream may only save around 2,000 pounds of food, her team hopes to create awareness for local organizations that rescue and redistribute food to communities in need.