Our Main Mission

Outside2Inside is on a mission to reduce food waste by preventing, recovering, and recycling

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Our impact since we started

1000 +

Volunteer Hours

1000 +

lbs Produce Recovered

100 +

People Fed with Food

100 +

People made Self-Aware

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Farm2School Program

41%

Kids Food Waste Awareness Course

30%

Food Waste Awareness Campaigns

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A wonderful journey with the Farm2School event!

The Farm2School is one of the premier programs of Outside2Inside in reducing food waste. In this program, a low cost Wonky Produce Farmer’s Market is setup at local low income schools by recovering the “cosmetically-challenged” fruit & veggies—food that is perfectly good, but not aesthetically suitable for retail. The school students are involved & equipped with knowledge about food waste, thereby enabling them to be advocates of food waste reduction and to run the farmer’s market. The goal of this program

December 30, 2018

Food waste to Animal Feed – A Berkeley Student Research

With staggering amounts of food waste in America entering landfills, new methods for recycling this food waste are continually arising and developing. The process of recycling food waste into use for animal feed is one with little research or real world implementations, but has promising potential as a main diversion source of food waste. While there is much more to be discovered and explored in this process of conversion, some success stories do stand as an example on how to

December 18, 2018

Food Waste Conversion to Animal Feed – A Berkeley students persepctive

As a freshman studying business and music, I wasn’t sure exactly sure what to expect when I began my four years at Berkeley. Everything changed when I joined several different communities on campus: the jazz band, CAL Dragon Boat, and FEED. FEED, an undergraduate consulting club that promotes food justice and sustainability, assigned me to a project team that would be working with Outside2Inside. Our goal was to research and implement the conversion of food waste into animal feed. The

December 18, 2018

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News

O2I Earth Day @ Central Park

Earth Day Celebrations

Date: April 25th, 2019 Time: 10am to 2pm Location: Central Park, Santa Clara, CA 95051

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O2I Earth Day @ Advantest America

Earth Day Celebrations

Date: April 22nd, 2019 Time: 11am to 2pm Location: 3061 Zanker Rd, San Jose, CA 95134

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O2I Earth Day @ LAM Research

Earth Day Celebrations

Date: May 15, 2019 Time: 11am to 2pm Location: 4650 Cushing Parkway, Fremont, CA 94538

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O2I + Berkeley FEED Research Partnership

Outside2Inside and UC Berkeley FEED Partnership on Food Waste Recycling!Outside2Inside (O2I) is happy to announce that FEED students will be working with O2I this Fall'18 in researching ways to recycle food waste into animal feed. #zerofoodwaste #recycle #O2I&FEED #thankyou — with FEED Berkeley.

O2I New Office

The #O2I family has moved to a new address on 16th September, 2018.Our new office address is 2716 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 95051.

Intel Grant for O2I Farm2School Program

Outside2Inside's Wonky Produce Farm2School program was selected as one of the winners of Intel's "Winners of the Wonder" program from about 300 applications. As a winner of this program, O2I will receive a grant of $5000 from Intel to conduct this innovative Wonky Produce Farm2School program in a local school in bay area.

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What our Customers have to say

The Wonky Produce Farmer’s Market at Ponderosa Elementary was a great success! The students were enthusiastic and eager to help! The families greatly appreciated the free produce and were excited to talk about why wonky produce is important to eat. Thanks very much to all the organizers from Outside2Inside for making the event happen!

Christy PetteePonderosa School Teacher, Sunnyvale, CA

Excited for Outside2Inside to make a huge impact—fighting waste & feeding people! This is just the beginning!

Dylan BondyOutreach Head, Imperfect Produce

FEED’s collaboration with Outside2Inside was a thoroughly enjoyable and educational experience. The people at the organization are incredibly passionate when it comes to accomplishing their goal of reducing, reusing, and recycling food waste and our team learned a tremendous amount from working with them. Their commitment and drive will surely lead them to great success and wide-reaching impact.

SusieUC Berkely FEED

A big Citizen Schools California shout out to Outside2Inside for visiting one of our San Jose middle schools and hosting a farmers market! Our students got a chance to volunteer to help spread awareness about food waste and imperfect produce!

Zoe Pilla Civic Engagement Coordinator, Citizen Schools CA