EPA chief checks in on food waste with Rock and Wrap It Up!

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler took part in several events in the South Bronx that focused on food waste, a major project of Cedarhurst-based Rock and Wrap It Up! founded by Syd Mandelbaum.

“Rock and Wrap it Up! is excited to work with Administrator Wheeler and his staff to serve food recovered through our Sports Wrap! Program,” Cedarhurst resident Mandelbaum said in a news release. “The New York Yankees have been part of our Sports Wrap! food recovery program for the past 15 seasons, donating over 150,000 meals and diverting over 81,000 pounds of greenhouse gases and saving 525,000 gallons of water. Sports Wrap program. Rock and Wrap It Up! is now in its 29th year and has fed over 1 billion people.”

“Addressing the problem of food waste will take cooperation across the public and private sectors, so it was a pleasure to meet with some of the leading organizations and companies committed to eliminating wasted food in New York City and across the country,” Wheeler stated in the release.