New Trend in Startups: Recycling Your Food

Here’s a great opening line for a pitch: “Are you gonna eat that trash?”

This isn’t hipster dumpster diving. A couple of new startups are working on a principle that everyone can support: rerouting wasted food to the hungry. The story pretty much writes itself—Food Cowboy co-founder calls his D.C.-based company “air traffic control for food”, scanning the city for totally edible stuff that’s about to be thrown away, like a box of bananas with a few brown spots.

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