Newhouse, Pingree Relaunch Food Recovery Caucus

Earlier this week, central Washington's representative Dan Newhouse and Maine’s Chellie Pingree relaunched the bipartisan Congressional Food Recovery Caucus, renewing efforts in Congress to combat food loss and waste nationwide as part of National Food Waste Prevention Week.

The caucus highlights commonsense, bipartisan solutions to reduce waste across the food supply chain.  Newhouse and Pingree say the Food Recovery Caucus will continue to educate Members of Congress and staff, support federal efforts to reduce food loss and waste, and uplift successful initiatives from across the country that are rescuing surplus food and fighting hunger. 

"Food security is a real issue for millions of Americans, and the rate in which we waste food in the U.S. continues to climb," Newhouse said. "I am proud to relaunch the Food Recovery Caucus alongside Rep. Pingree to tackle this issue in Congress and ensure those in need have access to the healthy food our farmers and ranchers work hard to deliver."

"Across the country, tens of millions of Americans face food insecurity—yet we’re throwing away perfectly edible food every day," Pingree added. "Food waste is a moral, economic, and environmental crisis.  I’m proud to relaunch the bipartisan Food Recovery Caucus with Congressman Newhouse to bring greater awareness to this issue and advance smart policies to reduce instances of food loss and waste."

National Food Waste Prevention Week runs through Sunday the 13th.

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