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GOOD START PACKAGING
Good Start Packaging is Rethink Food’s preferred compostable food packaging partner for 2024
Good Start Packaging is a leading compostable packaging supplier focused on helping food service operators build sustainable, successful businesses while creating a better world. They carry compostable and eco-friendly food and drink packaging, donate 20% of profits to humanitarian and environmental causes, and are proud to be a certified B Corp. Good Start Packaging serves clients across North America with warehouses in California and New Hampshire.
As Rethink Food's preferred compostable food packaging supplier for 2024, Good Start Packaging has donated $115,000 to support their work and provided packaging to celebrate the March 27, 2024, grand opening of Rethink Food's new Community Kitchen in Greenwich Village.
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RETHINK FOOD’S SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY KITCHEN
Integral to our sustainability efforts is our community kitchen, located in Greenwich Village in New York City. Rethink Food utilizes the excess food we pick up to prepare meals for communities experiencing food insecurity. Our kitchen prepares around 19,000 meals a week and distributes them, at no charge, to community-based organizations throughout the city.
Would you like to see our work in action? Visit us and learn more about our work first hand.
OUR IMPACT
Since 2017
$100M+
directed to local restaurants
24M+
Meals distributed to food-insecure communities in six cities
2.4+
pounds of excess food converted into meals
Ready to get involved?
JOIN US
BECOME A CORPORATE PARTNER
Rethink Food’s work is made possible by a vast network of partners committed to supporting our work and the communities that we serve nationwide. These partnerships are vital to the success of our mission to create a more sustainable and equitable food system.
BECOME A RESTAURANT PARTNER
Rethink Certified is a partnership program that works with restaurants and food establishments to fund & make meals for communities impacted by food insecurity–while using excess food whenever possible.
VOLUNTEER WITH US
Volunteers are an essential part of Rethink’s work and mission. Whether it’s at our Community Kitchen, with a Rethink partner, or with NYC schools, there are many ways you can contribute to a more sustainable future.
For more information or if you have any questions about volunteering, please contact us at volunteers@rethinkfood.org
DONATE YOUR EXCESS FOOD
As part of our sustainability work, we partner with restaurants and food purveyors on utilizing their excess food to provide meals to local communities.
Reach out to learn more about our excess food program.