Food Waste articles

Given this new idea direction we have done some broader research into other things that are reused.

My first thought was second hand shops - and how this is a similar idea in terms of people freely donating unwanted things, and other people getting the bonus of getting these items cheaper than they would brand new from the shop.

These redistribution ideas are not uncommon, however utilising this idea for perishable items is somewhat more recent. Hence, food.

Food waste and redistribution has become a big thing in the last few years and given that flowers are also a perishable item, it seems fitting to relate the 2.

These are some of the articles I read and the highlights:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/food-wine/88922701/What-we-re-doing-with-872-million-of-food-waste

"Twelve thousand tonnes of bread, 3000 tonnes of poultry -- more than 120,000 tonnes of food worth $872 million, every year. It's a staggering quantity, enough to feed all of Dunedin for two years, and at the same time we're chucking it away, there are thousands of people across the country who are going hungry."

"The final piece in the food waste puzzle is the organisations that source, collect and redistribute the huge quantities of food that would otherwise go to waste."

https://foodtank.com/news/2016/07/fighting-food-loss-and-waste/

"While food waste presents obvious moral and economic dilemmas, it also creates environmental problems. As food decomposes in landfills it releases methane, a greenhouse gas that is 27 times more potent than carbon dioxide."

https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/home/topics/waste-not-want-not/lidl-launches-food-waste-redistribution-scheme-with-neighbourly/547691.article

(UK) Lidl is to roll out its first national food redistribution scheme.

Following a “highly successful” eight-week trial, the partnership with social network Neighbourly will be rolled out across all Lidl stores by 2018, providing an extra two million meals a year to local charities, the retailer announced this week.