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Philly was wasting tons of produce. Then a scrappy start-up stepped in.

The nonprofit Sharing Excess has redistributed 11 million pounds of surplus food that would have gone to landfills.

Ellesha Palmer sorts the good from bad donated zucchini at the Philadelphia Wholesale Produce Market for Sharing Excess, a food-rescue organization. Photo taken on July 29, 2022.
Ellesha Palmer sorts the good from bad donated zucchini at the Philadelphia Wholesale Produce Market for Sharing Excess, a food-rescue organization. Photo taken on July 29, 2022.Read moreALEJANDRO A. ALVAREZ / Staff Photographer
    by Jenn Ladd
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