Name
Mobile app for reducing food waste from shops, bakeries, cafes
website
country
Latvia
Goal
The goal of this initiative it to save food from being thrown out. A mobile app gathers information from bakeries, shops, cafes on food which are soon to be expired. App users see what is offered (at lower price) and reserve/purchase the item on sale, then collects it from the site.
Aims: Waste reduction, GHG reduction
Main Topic
Sustainable food: from "farm to fork"; a fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food system
All Topics
Sustainable food: from "farm to fork": a fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food system
Scale
- National
Actors
- For-profit company
Main Activity
(Re-)selling goods and/or facilitating good exchanges;
Activities
- Conducting research, pilot studies and/or living labs
- Raising awareness and/or political agenda-setting
- (Re-)selling goods and/or facilitating good exchanges
Source
This initiative was provided by the SGD consortium.
This initiative is self-reported and not identified by the SHARED GREEN DEAL Consortium
CONTACT
For further details please contact co-leads Dr Chris Foulds (chris.foulds@aru.ac.uk) and Dr Rosie Robison (rosie.robison@aru.ac.uk).
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 101036640. The sole responsibility for the content of this website lies with the SHARED GREEN DEAL HAS project and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the European Union.