On Thursday, Layne, Sophie, my Dad and Layne’s mom went with us to City Harvest, in Long Island City. Before I had no idea what a re-pack was until I did the City Harvest Re-Pack. Once we went in there we were all very impressed with what we saw. They had a gigantic facility with over 42,000 square feet for the food. Once we got there, we wait about a good five minutes, and then we went on a tour with a group of people we didn’t know. They told us that they could store 75 million pounds of food in their new facility. We also learned that 40% of the United States food goes to waste. That was just jaw dropping, that we waste almost half of our food. The two reasons we waste our food are either because we don’t want to finish our food, or that when the food is ripe, it doesn’t look good and that wont sell to anybody, so the farmers just throw it away. After the tour, we went into a meeting room and listened with some people from E-Trade. Then we went to re-packing. What we did was we packed grapefruit and apples into a bag. The only thing was that most of the grapefruit was not looking nice and before the farmer threw it away because no store would buy it, City Harvest goes and buys it for a couple of cents. We were packing nice apples and ok apples to, bad looking grapefruit. Whenever we found a moldy grapefruit, we put it in our compost bin. When we were done, we learned that we packed over 14,000 pounds of food today, and that was just amazing.
