Waste Management customers donate nearly three tons of food to Auburn Food Bank

Final total was 5,984.5 pounds

October 17, 2018 8:30 am
Mayor Nancy Backus recently joined Waste Management driver Mike Fingerson for a ride-along to help bring awareness to the fall food drive. COURTESY PHOTO, WM
Mayor Nancy Backus recently joined Waste Management driver Mike Fingerson for a ride-along to help bring awareness to the fall food drive. COURTESY PHOTO, WM

Waste Management customers donated nearly three tons of food to the Auburn Food Bank, part of its Sept. 24-28 drive.

Customers left bags of nonperishable food next to their garbage carts on collection day.

The final total was 5,984.5 pounds.

Mayor Nancy Backus took a ride-along with WM driver Mike Fingerson and had this to say in her online update: “I think we all appreciate that our garbage gets collected each week, but I doubt that we every really stop to think about what occurs to make that happen. I have a new appreciation.”