Institutional development · Research, innovation and assessment · United States
Purdue computer researcher reroutes truckloads of surplus food from landfills to pantries
Purdue University says one of its computer researchers is diverting truckloads of excess food away from landfills and towards food pantries, treating food waste as a logistics problem.
Why it matters: Food pantries are receiving truckloads of surplus food that Purdue says one of its computer researchers has rerouted from landfills.
Purdue University said a computer researcher at the institution is rerouting truckloads of excess food from landfills to food pantries.
The university described the issue as one of logistics, saying the planet already grows enough food to feed everyone.
Purdue stated that a third of all food grown and raised goes to waste.
Editor’s view
Scott James, Research and Innovation Editor
Purdue reports that excess food which would have gone to landfills is instead going to food pantries through the work of one of its computer researchers.
