To fuel sprints, swims, and gravity-defying hurdles, athletes need to feast. During the 2012 Olympic Games in London, the dining hall catered to 16,000 competitors and officials from 200 countries. The dining facilities in Rio de Janeiro are similarly prepared to dish out mountainous quantities of food—a kitchen the size of two football fields will cook 60,000 meals a day, CBC reported. Buffets will be heaped with acai, starfruits, rice and beans, and cuisines from around the world.
But even the hungriest athlete isn’t a bottomless pit, and there’s bound to be food left over. It’s not destined for the trash: a handful of celebrity chefs are pitching in to redirect the cast-offs from the waste stream.
