The poorest residents of Rio De Janeiro will be benefiting from one surplus of the Olympic Games.
Chefs are taking the food left over from the Olympic Village and are using unused supplies and making meals for the hungry, the Independent reported.
Chefs Massimo Bottura and David Hertz came up with the plan and called it RefettoRio Gastromotiva.
Bottura and Hertz told Reuters that they, and their 40 partner chefs, will only use ingredients that would normally be heading to the dump; for example fruit and vegetables that are deemed ugly, but are fine for consumption.
Between 30 and 40 percent of food produced worldwide isn't eaten because it spoils or is thrown away by stores and consumers, Reuters reported.
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In Brazil, just under 5 percent of the population goes hungry, Reuters reported. The population of Brazil is 208 million people, meaning 10,400,000 don't have enough food to eat.
Gastromotiva will run through both the Olympic and Paralympic games, then will continue after the sporting events as a "social business," Hertz said.
It will also training aspiring cooks, bakers and servers.
A similar program was launched in 2015 during the Milan World Expo. Refetterio Ambrosiano had 65 chefs cooking meals with donated food.
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