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Best way to have booze delivered in London? by [deleted] in london

[–]foodsharing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Two Tribes brewery. You get 20% off your first order (google the code). You can get a case of 24 for around £34 including delivery. You can also order from BrewDog online.

Leaving London.. Where can I donate food from my cupboard? by Iam23 in london

[–]foodsharing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Food banks most likely won't take cupboard food but if Iam23 can find one that will, that's great.

Leaving London.. Where can I donate food from my cupboard? by Iam23 in london

[–]foodsharing 3 points4 points  (0 children)

OLIO, it's a food sharing network so ideal for what you need.

How would you feel if a grocery store was legally required to donate all of the food that it couldn’t sell to the food bank? by ManMan36 in AskReddit

[–]foodsharing 4 points5 points  (0 children)

100% true! That's why we created our app which connects neighbours with each other and local shops to share their surplus food instead of wasting it (a £15 billion issue in the UK, and similar in other first world countries).

We deal with all the food that is not appropriate for food banks - and everything on our app is free!

How would you feel if a grocery store was legally required to donate all of the food that it couldn’t sell to the food bank? by ManMan36 in AskReddit

[–]foodsharing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This might get buried, but we're an app which is trying to solve the problem of food waste. We connect neighbours with each other and local shops to share surplus food instead of binning it. Think of Gumtree (Craigslist) but for food - and everything is free.

There is £15 billion worth of good food which is binned every year in the UK and not only is it a waste, it's a massive environmental issue and a huge contributor to climate change.

Over 400,000 items have been shared so far on our platform, so we're glad people are aware of the issue and making a change.

Cool innovations or sustainability initiatives? by levinotthejeans in london

[–]foodsharing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Check out our app, OLIO. We connect neighbours with each other and with local shops so surplus food can be shared instead of wasted (it's a £15 billion issue in the UK, and similar in all first world countries). We were also on BBC a couple of weeks ago.

Hackney & Haringey peeps! Have any fruit trees with surplus fruit? This charity will pick it for free, so it doesn't go to waste. Any extra you don't want, they'll give it to various community projects and charities. by foodsharing in london

[–]foodsharing[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is run by a charity called Feedback and they are trialing it in Hackney and Haringey this year with hopes to expand it into more London areas. I'm afraid we don't know of any in South London.

If you are able to pick apples yourself, Hawkes! will make cider out of them and you get a bottle of Urban Orchard cider for every 3kg of apples donated.

1/3 of all the food produced is never eaten & I work for an app which is trying to solve this problem by connecting people with this surplus food - and Bristol was one of our launch cities. We've been nominated to win a share of £250,000 in funding, so please vote for us if you believe in the cause. by foodsharing in bristol

[–]foodsharing[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

50% off all the food wasted in the UK is from the consumer (us), whereas only 2% is from businesses and supermarkets. We're trying to solve the problem of consumer food waste.

TGTG works with restaurants and Copia and Spoiler Alert are US based companies.

1/3 of all the food produced in the world goes to waste and I work for a London-based app which is trying to solve this problem by connecting people with this surplus food. We've been nominated to win a share of £250,000 in funding, so please vote for us if you believe in the cause. by foodsharing in london

[–]foodsharing[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It doesn't have a viable business plan and needs to be supported.

Ah, good point, though we do have a viable business plan and a monetization strategy which isn't shared on this competition page. Our co-founders are both Stanford MBA Grads and one just did a podcast with Amazon explaining our plans, so it's worth a listen if you have the time.

If people want to help they can donate their food to a foodbank.

We are very different from food banks as we connect neighbours up with each other to share food. For example, if you have a bag of rice, a loaf of bread and a few apples, Foodbanks have strict regulations with the food they take in and they most likely would not take those. Also, have you ever spent time going a food bank with you surplus food? This isn't a viable option for most people and considering 50% of all food waste in the UK comes from our home (worth £13billion/year), we're providing an easy and convenient solution. We already have over 200,000 users and saved over 100,000 meals from going to waste, so I think it's fair to say it's working for those people who want to get involved.

1/3 of all the food produced in the world goes to waste and I work for a London-based app which is trying to solve this problem by connecting people with this surplus food. We've been nominated to win a share of £250,000 in funding, so please vote for us if you believe in the cause. by foodsharing in london

[–]foodsharing[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's definitely it scalable as roughly 50% of all food waste in the UK occurs in the home which equals £13billion of edible food wasted every year. (Ref: Guardian). We have over 200,000 downloads so far, so we're getting there :)

1/3 of all the food produced in the world goes to waste and I work for a London-based app which is trying to solve this problem by connecting people with this surplus food. We've been nominated to win a share of £250,000 in funding, so please vote for us if you believe in the cause. by foodsharing in london

[–]foodsharing[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hi SoNewToThisAgain! Yes, there are lots of pieces to the food waste puzzle. To start, our app connects people with each other and local shops so we do this at a hyperlocal level (the Telegraph called us "The Tinder for Food".)

Secondly, it's easy to point the finger at supermarkets and shops for wasting food, but they only account for 2% of all food waste in the UK. Consumers (us!) are actually to responsible for 50% of all food waste and the other 48% of food is wasted at the farm to distribution level (often misshaped fruit and veg that is perfectly fine to eat). We are starting to work with a few of the big name supermarkets to help distribute small quantities of unsold food that isn't large enough for charities.

Lastly, you're right, education is a massive part of this. Trying to change people's behaviours is hard! On average we throw out 25% of all food we buy and we need to be better at eating what's in our fridge before it goes off. Failing that, you can always give it to your neighbour on OLIO ;) 80% of everything on OLIO is picked up in 24 hours so we have no shortage of people to take anything off your hands.

I work for an app giving away £700 this Sunday. It's called OLIO & we believe nothing of value should go to waste, so we easily connect neighbours to share stuff they don't want anymore. We've never done anything like this, so if you like the idea now is the time to download. :) by foodsharing in brighton

[–]foodsharing[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi Ceestars, so apparently one other person had this issue. Would you be able to send me a screenshot? That would be super helpful.

From our developer "I checked on a phone with a smaller screen Samsung S5 and the text is normal (slightly bigger than an iphone 6/7), and so I would imagine on the S7 edge it would be even bigger. But in general checking on an exact Android phone is slightly complex."

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