Spotlight on: Fraser Valley Gleaners
This outstanding organization rescues fresh produce and turns it into soup mixes to feed starving and impoverished children all around the world. Find out how they do it. ...
16 May, 2024
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Spotlight on: Redux
This innovative business employs rendering to convert unused animal parts, such as bones and fat, into valuable ingredients for products like renewable energy and animal feed....
05 September, 2023
Fraser Valley Regional District hosting food waste bylaw webinar
The Abbotsford News reports on FoodMesh's collaboration with the regional district to help Fraser Valley-based businesses find new uses for their unsold food and compostable organics. ...
15 March, 2022
FoodMesh and the Fraser Valley Regional District Food Recovery Network divert 2.9 million KG food away from landfill
FoodMesh has teamed up with the Fraser Valley Regional District to build a network of organizations that can safely and quickly match those with surplus food with others that need it....
08 March, 2022
Meet 8 service providers that can help you put your unsold food and organics to good use
To help you prepare for the region's waste sorting by-law, join this webinar on March 17 to hear about alternate uses for your food 'waste'...
24 February, 2022
Why businesses in the Fraser Valley are being asked to “Sort It Out”
Education on the FVRD food waste bylaw starts this year with food businesses...
16 February, 2022
Food no longer suitable for human consumption finds a happy home
Meet George and Ernest, two happy recipients of some of the inedible food donations that were diverted through the Retail Food Recovery Program....
19 March, 2021
Save-On-Foods adds its newest Chilliwack location to its zero food-waste promise
Save-On-Foods’ fourth Chilliwack location is diverting 100% of its unsalable food to charitable organizations through FoodMesh's Retail Food Recovery Program....
18 March, 2021
FoodMesh taking its emergency food recovery project nationwide
The Peace Arch News reports on a new project FoodMesh is leading to take on food security challenges and food waste across Canada...
11 August, 2020
Fraser Valley Regional District’s Food Recovery Network
Find out how the Fraser Valley is working with FoodMesh to create a connected and efficient food system in the region...
20 November, 2019
FoodMesh seeks food producers and processors in Chilliwack with surplus to donate
The Chilliwack Progress reports on a new collaboration between FoodMesh and the Fraser Valley Regional District to give edible but otherwise imperfect food a second chance....
03 August, 2018