A WasteLess Solutions “food rescue” is as simple as opening a notification that food needs to be picked up at a nearby restaurant, farm, grocery store or event center, driving to the location for pick-up, and dropping the delivery off at a food bank, women’s shelter or similar organization. Even individual trees can be registered for harvest.

“I found it’s a really great thing with the whole family, because it does feel a little bit like a scavenger hunt,” Burrell says. “You get instructions like: Go to the window, hit the green button, go through, and there’s a sweet old man who tells you to say the password, ‘Blackbird, blackbird, snow falls at night.’ I’m exaggerating, but it feels that way.”

Burrell, who played Phil Dunphy in “Modern Family,” is an actor and entrepreneur who bought his first place in Utah with his wife, Holly, in 2008, moved to Utah full time in 2020, and has been pouring into the Salt Lake City business community since. WasteLess is one organization he passionately supports with his wife, because its mission to reduce food waste aligns with his entrepreneurial ventures and values.

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