Food Recycling

Community Outreach Program

The Food Recycling Program, also known as the Community Outreach Program,  was the first of its kind in North Carolina and was actually begun by a University of North Carolina at Charlotte student, now faculty member.  For more information on the history of the program, check out http://www.uncc.edu/gchutchi/history.htm

Students volunteer to take leftover food from our campus cafeterias to the Urban Ministry Center, a local homeless shelter. Instead of good food being wasted, our university gives something back to our community by simply saving and collecting our leftovers!