What would you do if you found out that 42,000 pounds of perfectly good potatoes originally destined for store shelves were instead headed to the landfill?
For a Denver nonprofit, the answer was clear: save the potatoes from the trash heap and give them away for free, according to Denver7.
What happened?
Denver-based nonprofit We Don’t Waste distributed roughly 21 tons of potatoes at its Park Hill Food Recovery Hub, where anyone in the Denver metro area could pick up as many potatoes as they could take.
The nonprofit advised people to come ready with ways to haul their taters, including tote bags, wagons, or even a pickup truck…