The document discusses the problem of food waste in the US, where 40% of food goes uneaten at an annual cost of $218 billion and environmental impact equal to the third largest country for greenhouse gas emissions. It then introduces 412 Food Rescue, an organization that collects fresh, healthy food that would otherwise go to waste from donors and directly distributes it to community groups serving the food insecure. In 2015-2016, 412 Food Rescue rescued over 730,000 pounds of food with a retail value of $1.8 million, diverting the equivalent emissions of 196,000 pounds of coal burned.