SF utilizes significant cardboard, wooden pallets (added to recycling
efforts in 2005), and plastic wrapping in its warehouse and
food distribution processes. Reducing packaging waste continues
to be a focus of SF’s employees and volunteers (Figure 7.5-6), as
each one percent of packaging waste translates into an average of
2,000 pounds of potential wood or paper recyclable materials. In
2007 SF projects that it will be able to reduce its packaging waste
to just 5 percent, which would make it the best food bank for this
measure in the regional FBLC.