Do Good Chicken, the first chicken brand that fights food waste and combats climate change, is celebrating the one-year anniversary of its launch with a big milestone, announcing that it has diverted approximately 27 million pounds of surplus food from going to landfill, saving more than 3,100 metric tons of greenhouse gases from entering the atmosphere, or the equivalent of saving 3,429,869 pounds of coal from being burned.
Do Good Chicken accomplished this milestone thanks to its unique closed-loop system that works with grocers to upcycle grocery surplus food (after community donations) into nutritious animal feed. Currently, grocery stores, restaurants and food service companies account for 40% of U.S. food waste, according to Feeding America.In fact, wasted food from the retail sector is valued at more than $18 billion, which is about twice the amount of profit retailers generate from food sales, according to ReFED 26 Dept of Agriculture.