Too Good to Go (an app to stop food waste)

Too Good to Go is a worldwide app that helps to stop good food, from going to waste. This organisation that started out on a small social mission, is now one of the world’s biggest sharers of surplus food.

You can enjoy good food for half the price, and even enjoy ‘surprise bags’ from local shops, restaurant and hotels (that help stop food being thrown away, and give them extra profits too).

Before sharing food, read up on food safety for people and pets. Just bin scraps from alliums (onions, garlic, leeks, shallots, chives) and citrus/tomato/rhubarb scraps, as acids may harm compost creatures.

You can now even order Too Good to Go Parcels, bundles of surplus food from manufacturers, that are send to them, to deliver to your door.

This organisation was founded around 10 years ago in Denmark, by entrepreneurs who wanted to do something about food waste, and knew that giving people cheap good food (and helping businesses to sell food that was still okay to eat) made good business (as well as environmental sense).

Today the company has over 100 million registered users and 175,000 business partners across 19 countries, which has saved over 400 million meals from being trashed for no reason.

As an example, say you run a bakery. At the end of the day, your leftover bread may not be good for tomorrow. So you can sell it half-price to customers via the app, and they get half-priced good bread, and you can make a lot of added income.

Some larger stores that use apps like this, can sometimes earn up to £80K extra a year in profit.

The Look-Smell-Taste Label

Too Good to Go’s Look-Smell-Taste label is the latest idea from this wonderful company. A lot of food is thrown away, due to all the confusion about best-before and ‘use-by dates’. This label can help remind people if a product is still good enough to eat:

The ‘use by date’ is for food safety (don’t eat after the date). The ‘best before date’ is simply about optimal food quality. In most cases, it can be safely consumed: