How Second Harvest works with processors and manufacturers to rescue food.

Wherever your surplus occurs, we have a solution. We work with processors and manufacturers to:

• Manage the donation of unsaleable or surplus products including R&D trails, overruns, off-spec, short and past-code product;
• Coordinate with our national corporate retail and foodservice partners to help co-packers simplify the donation process for private-label product;
• Handle OS&D donations, acting as a one-stop solution between manufacturers shipping goods and your logistics providers to prevent wasted resources.

Whether you have raw ingredients or finished goods, one-offs or recurring surplus, our team will work with you to build a solution that fits your operations, with free pick-up and full impact tracking included. Reduce waste-related costs, simplify surplus management and strengthen ESG outcomes, all at no cost to your operation.

Second Harvest distributes food free of charge to verified non-profits across Canada. This includes food banks, school groups, senior centres, shelters, outreach programs and remote and northern communities. Our distribution model combines owned assets and third-party transportation and warehousing partners enabling us to move large volume, time-sensitive donations at scale.

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