Almost two decades ago, Quest Outreach Society launched an innovative business model: to rescue food — perfectly good cans, boxes and perishables — that would otherwise be tossed in the garbage and headed for our landfills, and redirect it to hungry people in the Lower Mainland who need it most. We call it the Quest Food Exchange.

Today, we're B.C.'s only food exchange and we divert 5.77 million pounds of surplus food from landfills each year, which adds up to $8.26 million worth of food. We fill and then empty our 575-m2 warehouse each day, providing food to hundreds of social service agencies in the region feeding 70,000 people a month. Yet we're capturing less than 1% of the food being wasted.

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