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Company history Rescuing food

A Most Imperfect 2022

Last year was one for the books. You crushed it like a tomato, rescuing ugly pro...

Food for all

Imperfect Donations: Saving Fo...

This September, for Hunger Action Month, we’re working to raise awareness of hun...

Combatting climate change Rescuing food Sustainability

How We Calculate Our Environme...

See what goes into calculating our environmental impact stats and learn what you...

How it works Our food system

How Supply Chain Issues Affect...

Over the last year, the term "supply chain" has probably flickered across your s...

Company history Sustainability

Imperfect is Now a B Corp!

With our mission to grow the movement to eliminate food waste and build a busine...

Packaging

Our Approach to Reducing Packa...

As part of our commitment to reducing waste, we’re committed to reducing the amo...

Company history DEI

An Update On Our Anti-Racist C...

We’re sharing an update about the progress we’ve made on our commitment to being...

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...

Packaging Sustainability

How We Built Our Packaging Ret...

Learn how we built our first-of-its-kind Packaging Return Program from our susta...

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...

Combatting climate change Sustainability

Our Commitment to Being a Net-...

With Earth Month on the horizon and the fight against climate change more pressi...

Combatting climate change Rescuing food Sustainability

Our 2020 Impact Report

See the positive impact our community had in 2020 and celebrate what we accompli...

Food for all

Our Partnership With Feeding A...

Learn about our partnership with Feeding America to make a bigger impact on food...

Recipe roundup Snack

Easy Gameday Recipes to Tackle

Whether you’re watching the big game to cheer on your team or you’re...

Sustainability

Our Sustainability Commitments

We share how our mission to eliminate food waste and build a better food system ...

Composting

Imperfect’s Commitment to Comp...

We share why we’re so passionate about composting as a way to reduce food waste ...

Our 2020 Year In Review

Lettuce take a walk down memory lane and revisit some highlights of 2020 at Impe...

Our New Commitment to Clean So...

Learn about our exciting new investment in clean, solar energy to power Imperfec...

Company history

The Story of Our New Recycled ...

Learn the backstory of our new Imperfect delivery boxes!

DEI

Imperfect’s Anti-Racist Pledge

To address issues of racial injustice, we all need to take collective action to ...

DEI

Resources for Feeding Change i...

Imperfect stands united against any form of racism, discrimination, and injustic...

Producer spotlights

The Story of our Imperfect Oli...

Learn how we’re working with olive growers in California to source delicious and...

Combatting climate change Rescuing food

Celebrating 100 Million Pounds...

We celebrate recovering 100 million pounds of food to date thanks to your help.

Rescuing food

Our 2019 Imperfect Year in Review

See what our most popular grocery items of 2019 were, learn what your impact on ...

Company history

Imperfect’s Impact: Leading wi...

We share the positive impact that our community has had on our food system so far.

Det your Dairy Delivered, Why ...

We share why we’re offering dairy and other refrigerated items in our boxes and ...

Product spotlights

Where Do Imperfect Grapes Come...

Supporting farmers means more than buying their produce. It means building empat...

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...

Company history

2018 in Review: A Letter from ...

Our co-founders share some highlights from this past year and a look at what we’...

Company history

A Special Addition to the Impe...

Kevin Durant joins the Imperfect team to help us grow roots on the East coast!

Producer spotlights

Where Does Our Midwestern Prod...

Ever wonder where our produce comes from? Here’s the story of one of our biggest...

DEI

Imperfect Celebrates Pride Month!

How Imperfect celebrates Pride, this month and always.

Food for all

Imperfect & Oregon Food Bank

We spent an afternoon at the Oregon Food Bank and learned a lot about hunger, pe...

Company history

Imperfect in 2017: A Year in R...

We're not crying-- we've just been cutting onions while reviewing our favorite m...

Our food system Spring

Mind the gap! aka When is spri...

This week we explore "gapping," one of the biggest factors impacting produce pri...

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