Author: Gavin Haines / Source: Positive News
From an app that redistributes restaurant leftovers to a charity that repurposes hotel toiletries, three projects that turn waste into something useful
1. The app that stops catering leftovers going to waste
Hate food waste? Love quality cheap eats? A food redistribution app that has launched in London might just be to your taste.
The Karma app, which is free to download, targets restaurant leftovers. It allows eateries to advertise unsold meals to registered app users, who get to eat delicious takeaway dinners at discount prices.Founded in Sweden in 2016, Karma has more than 1,000 restaurants and 250,000 diners on its books in the two countries combined. “The founders realised how huge the problem of surplus food was in the food industry and how much people appreciate buying great food for less,” said Alex Spain from Karma.
With its booming restaurant scene and substantial waste problem, the English capital seemed like an obvious place to take the app abroad, he said. Could it help slash the UK’s 10m tonnes of food binned each year?
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