A New After-Game Pleasure at Super Bowl: Eat the Leftovers!

The National Football League (NFL) Super Bowl championship in the U.S. has made sure this year’s leftover food doesn’t go to waste: over the course of three days, 37 volunteers donated more than 35,000 pounds of leftover food!

“It’s a full volunteer job for everyone. We just want to help people in need,” Food Rescue US Miami director Ellen Bowen told ESPN. “It’s amazing to see how much food there is that otherwise would have been thrown in the trash that can now feed so many people.”

This was the first time the NFL has made sure its food ended up in local shelters in Miami rather than in landfills, through its sustainability initiative NFL Green and in collaboration with the catering company Centerplate as well as food donation organization Food Rescue US.