Salvage donations to food bank drop as production improves

URBANA – Salvage crews used to work every day at the Eastern Illinois Foodbank, sorting dented canned goods and damaged boxes of pasta discarded by area grocers.

Now, with food-salvage donations on the decline, they're needed maybe eight hours a week.

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