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Nonprofit Teams Up With Indiana School Districts To Tackle Food Waste

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Cultivate is a nonprofit organization that's teamed up with local school districts in Indiana to provide free individualized meals to students. (Hans Pennink/AP)
Cultivate is a nonprofit organization that's teamed up with local school districts in Indiana to provide free individualized meals to students. (Hans Pennink/AP)

Is your city or town tackling waste in an innovative way? Tell us about it, and we might dig deeper for a Here & Now story as part of our "Going To Waste" series.


Every year about 40 percent of food goes to waste. So a nonprofit organization called Cultivate has teamed up with local school districts in Indiana to provide free meals to students. Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson speaks with Cultivate president Jim Conklin about the group's endeavors.

This segment aired on April 24, 2019.

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