City Harvest and NYC restaurants pair up to fight hunger. On a daily basis, volunteers retrieve excess produce from restaurants and deliver the goods to food pantrys. 

The empty vending machine and empty meat packaging inform a consumer on the alraming state of hunger and poverty in NYC, for which the average New Yorker is unware. 

The container is to be used by the participating restaurants as a take-out box. The top appears as it always does, white and plain, while the reversed reveals a message.

It reads, “This container holds more food than 1 in 4 families eats in a day. Help change this at www.cityharvest.org.”