Rock and Wrap It Up! and Major League Baseball team up to feed NY

Press Release:

 Excess Food from 85th MLB All-Star Game to feed New York’s Hungry

CEDARHURST, NY- Major League Baseball and Rock and Wrap It Up! (RWU) have partnered for the past 7 All-Star Games to arrange for the recovery of all food, prepared, but not served or sold, to feed our nation’s hungry. This year, food will be recovered from a 5,000 person dinner on the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, NYC, the Home Run Derby at Citi-Field and the All Star Game at Citi-Field in Queens NY. Currently, RWU works with 20 baseball teams and stadiums across the United States. Partnering food purveyors include Centerplate, Delaware North, Levy Restaurants, Legends and Aramark.

RWU is an award-winning anti-poverty think tank. We research, discover and nurture potential donors who have renewable assets to share. Our donors include touring bands, educational institutions, the hospitality industry, professional sports teams and TV/film shoots throughout North America. We find and vet agencies across our continent who need these resources thereby reducing the poverty footprint while reducing the carbon footprint. Over one billion meals have been recovered since 1991.

70 Sports Franchises work with RWU including all 30 teams of the National Hockey League. Sports-generated recovered food feeds over 6000 people each week across the United States and Canada. By food being kept out of land fill, thousands of pounds of CO2, a green house gas, are not released into the atmosphere.

All of our partners are protected by the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Act (Pub. L. No 104-210, 110 Stat. 3011(1996) as long as safe food handling is used.  RWU wrote the Federal Food Donation Act of 2008 (Pul. L. 110-247 122 Stat. 2314(2008) The Act encourages federal agencies to donate food from their restaurants, cafeterias and other facilities to feed our nation’s hungry. RWU works with the USDA and EPA in their Food Waste Challenge efforts. Currently plans are underway to pilot asset recover efforts on military bases.

In September 2012, RWU Founder Syd Mandelbaum was a keynote speaker at the Green Sports Alliance Summit held in Seattle, WA, encouraging food recovery at all stadiums and arenas. In 2014, RWU will work with the NFL to orchestrate food recovery surrounding Super Bowl XLVIII, to be held in Met Life Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ.

Contact: Syd Mandelbaum 1-516-295-0670