Food waste wasting away

There’s another food waste initiative in the news this week, this time targeting the 600,000 tonnes of food wasted by UK restaurants each year.

The app, Too Good To Go, lets people order unsold food from restaurants that would otherwise have been thrown away at the end service. Even better, the food is available at a fraction of the normal price – between £2 and £3.80 per dish.

Having proved successful in Brighton, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds, the app is rolling out in London later this month. The owners say 96 restaurants in London have already signed up to the service.

After making a dent in the food waste epidemic, the company’s wider ambition is to stop the waste in the first place.

Co-founder Chris Wilson explains, “The ultimate goal is to use it for restaurants to solve their waste management problem, rather than it being about making profit.

“The idea is that restaurants stop producing the extra food so they don’t need to throw it away in the first place, so really we want to put ourselves out of business by stopping food waste.”

Another step in the right direction for food waste.