About Imperfect

A Most Imperfect 2022

Last year was one for the books. You crushed it like a tomato, rescuing ugly produce, upcycling ingredients, and shopping sustainable groceries.
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About Imperfect

Sustainability stats, company updates, and stories from a bunch of produce nerds with computers.

Company historyRescuing food
A Most Imperfect 2022
Last year was one for the books. You crushed it like a tomato, rescuing ugly pro...
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Food for all
Imperfect Donations: Saving Fo...
This September, for Hunger Action Month, we’re working to raise awareness of hun...
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Combatting climate changeRescuing foodSustainability
How We Calculate Our Environme...
See what goes into calculating our environmental impact stats and learn what you...
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How it worksOur food system
How Supply Chain Issues Affect...
Over the last year, the term "supply chain" has probably flickered across your s...
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Company historySustainability
Imperfect is Now a B Corp!
With our mission to grow the movement to eliminate food waste and build a busine...
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Packaging
Our Approach to Reducing Packa...
As part of our commitment to reducing waste, we’re committed to reducing the amo...
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Company historyDEI
An Update On Our Anti-Racist C...
We’re sharing an update about the progress we’ve made on our commitment to being...
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Our food system
Why Doesn’t Imperfect Sell Ban...
Since our founding in 2015, one of the most common questions we’ve gotten from o...
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PackagingSustainability
How We Built Our Packaging Ret...
Learn how we built our first-of-its-kind Packaging Return Program from our susta...
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Why food goes to waste
Imperfect’s Intentional ...
You make an impact with every order you get from us, but there are so many nonse...
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Combatting climate changeSustainability
Our Commitment to Being a Net-...
With Earth Month on the horizon and the fight against climate change more pressi...
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Combatting climate changeRescuing foodSustainability
Our 2020 Impact Report
See the positive impact our community had in 2020 and celebrate what we accompli...
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Food for all
Our Partnership With Feeding A...
Learn about our partnership with Feeding America to make a bigger impact on food...
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Recipe roundupSnack
Easy Gameday Recipes to Tackle
Whether you’re watching the big game to cheer on your team or you’re...
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Sustainability
Our Sustainability Commitments
We share how our mission to eliminate food waste and build a better food system ...
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Composting
Imperfect’s Commitment to Comp...
We share why we’re so passionate about composting as a way to reduce food waste ...
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Our 2020 Year In Review
Lettuce take a walk down memory lane and revisit some highlights of 2020 at Impe...
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Our New Commitment to Clean So...
Learn about our exciting new investment in clean, solar energy to power Imperfec...
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Company history
The Story of Our New Recycled ...
Learn the backstory of our new Imperfect delivery boxes!
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DEI
Imperfect’s Anti-Racist Pledge
To address issues of racial injustice, we all need to take collective action to ...
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DEI
Resources for Feeding Change i...
Imperfect stands united against any form of racism, discrimination, and injustic...
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Producer spotlights
The Story of our Imperfect Oli...
Learn how we’re working with olive growers in California to source delicious and...
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Combatting climate changeRescuing food
Celebrating 100 Million Pounds...
We celebrate recovering 100 million pounds of food to date thanks to your help.
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Rescuing food
Our 2019 Imperfect Year in Review
See what our most popular grocery items of 2019 were, learn what your impact on ...
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Company history
Imperfect’s Impact: Leading wi...
We share the positive impact that our community has had on our food system so far.
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Det your Dairy Delivered, Why ...
We share why we’re offering dairy and other refrigerated items in our boxes and ...
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Product spotlights
Where Do Imperfect Grapes Come...
Supporting farmers means more than buying their produce. It means building empat...
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Food for all
Giving Back Through Our Reduce...
Learn all about our reduced-cost box and the work we’re doing to make fresh prod...
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Company history
2018 in Review: A Letter from ...
Our co-founders share some highlights from this past year and a look at what we’...
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Company history
A Special Addition to the Impe...
Kevin Durant joins the Imperfect team to help us grow roots on the East coast!
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Producer spotlights
Where Does Our Midwestern Prod...
Ever wonder where our produce comes from? Here’s the story of one of our biggest...
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DEI
Imperfect Celebrates Pride Month!
How Imperfect celebrates Pride, this month and always.
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Food for all
Imperfect & Oregon Food Bank
We spent an afternoon at the Oregon Food Bank and learned a lot about hunger, pe...
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Company history
Imperfect in 2017: A Year in R...
We're not crying-- we've just been cutting onions while reviewing our favorite m...
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Our food systemSpring
Mind the gap! aka When is spri...
This week we explore "gapping," one of the biggest factors impacting produce pri...
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