App: Too Good To Go

 
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Relevant Background: Too Good To Go makes it easy to make a positive impact on the planet while saving money on your favourite foods. That's why it's been named as the Winner of the '2023 Cultural Impact' category at the prestigious annual Apple App Store Awards. With the #1 app for reducing food waste, you can save tasty unsold snacks, takeaway meals and ingredients straight from shops, cafes, grocery stores and restaurants in your area - all at an unbeatable price.


Reducing food waste is one of the solutions to slow down climate change: together we have the power to make a difference. In a world where 40% of food produced goes to waste annually, the Too Good To Go app is your ticket to unlocking affordable eats while helping the planet.


How Too Good To Go Works:


Explore and Discover: Download the app to explore the map, finding nearby restaurants, cafes, grocery stores, and shops with unsold food.


Choose Your Surprise Bag: Browse a variety of Surprise Bags, each filled with tasty, unsold food. From sushi delights and fast-food favourites like pizzas and burgers to grocery staples and healthy fruits and veggies, the options are endless.


Affordable Rescues: Select a Surprise Bag that suits your cravings and budget. Prices start from as low as $3.99, providing an affordable and sustainable way to enjoy quality meals.


Secure Your Spot: Confirm your purchase through the app to secure your spot and rescue these tasty treats. Your contribution not only saves you money but also actively reduces food waste.


Collect and Enjoy: Head to the selected business at the pre-set time to collect your Surprise Bag. Indulge in your rescued food guilt-free, knowing you've made a positive impact on the environment.


Why Too Good To Go?


Wallet-Friendly Indulgence: Access quality food at affordable prices, satisfying both your taste buds and wallet.


Variety and Choice: Too Good To Go is partnered with a huge selection of both local favourites and renowned takeaway brands with surplus food. We offer a diverse range of options for every palate, including takeout sushi, pizza, burgers, baked goods, whole foods, and more.



Environmental Impact: Every Surprise Bag equates to 2.7kg of CO2e avoided, meaning enjoying your favourite foods and reducing waste is a step closer towards a cleaner, greener planet.


Easy Purchase Process: The app's user-friendly interface makes it easy to browse, choose, and purchase Surprise Bags.


Convenient Rescues: Collect your rescued meals at the pre-set time, ensuring a hassle-free experience.


Join the Too Good To Go Community:


Become a part of a community that believes in enjoying good food while making a positive impact on the planet. Don't miss out on the opportunity to eat well and do good. Download the app now and start reducing food waste—one tasty Surprise Bag at a time.


Reducing food waste is the #1 action you can take to help tackle climate change.

For more information, visit toogoodtogo.com/en-us/claims.. (Link)

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Relevant Material: The world loses an astounding quantity of food every year. It blows your mind but a third of all food for human consumption in the world is lost or wasted. 1.3 billion tons of food suitable for human consumption and 1.6 billion tons of so-called "primary product equivalents” are lost or wasted....

Food is lost in every step of the food “life cycle”

  1. Agricultural production (e.g. fields)
  2. Postharvest handling and storage
  3. Processing
  4. Distribution
  5. Consumption
  6. End of life

In fields food is lost due to crop pests and diseases. Food is also lost because of inefficient harvesting methods, transportation and storage. And food is wasted through the deliberate discarding of food in shops, supermarkets, and households.

The largest source of food waste is in the production phase where over 500 million tons is lost due to things like crop pests and ineffective harvesting and irrigation. This is followed by “postharvest handling and storage” and “consumption” both with around 350 million tons. These three phases account for around 75% of all food waste. But there are potentials for reducing food waste in all six steps!

We throw away food perfectly fit for eating

Huge amounts of food is also lost simply because we throw it away. 35% of the wasted food is simply thrown out by supermarkets, shops, and households. Much of it is still perfectly fit for eating.

Sustainable development goal on food waste

The UN Sustainable Development targets include the goals by 2030:

  • Cutting in half global food waste at the retail and consumer levels per capita.
  • Reducing food loss in production and supply chains.

Sounds good but there’s a problem...

Let’s get a few facts straight on the UN food waste targets:

  • The retail and consumer levels account for just over a third of all food waste.
  • The world population will continue to grow and reach 8.6 billion in 2030. That’s around 800 million people more than in 2020.

This means that even if the target of cutting in half waste per capita (of a third of total food waste) total global food waste could still go up. And that’s a problem.

Wasting food while finding ways of feeding a growing population

Food waste is a problem in itself in a world where over 800 million people suffer from hunger and undernourishment. All these people could be fed by less than a quarter of the food lost or wasted in the US and Europe.

Over 2 billion people will join our planet between 2020 and 2050. All these people need to eat! We can feed them by increasing food production by 60% - or we could just stop throwing away our food.

Food waste worsens a number of environmental problems

Food production requires energy, pesticides, land and so on. Besides, food production contributes to the emission of greenhouse.. (Link)

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Relevant Material: Between 25,000 and 35,000 people are homeless on any given night in Canada. Toronto has the most homeless people in Canada. 62% of homeless people in Canada are males. 30% of Canadian homeless come from Indigenous communities...

  • 90% of homeless shelters in Canada are in Ontario, British Columbia, Quebec, and Alberta, and 44% of them are in Ontario alone.
  • 22% of shelters are aimed at young homeless in Canada, while 20% of people experiencing homelessness are 13-24 years old.
  • The annual cost to society is over $7 billion.
  • The Canadian Government is investing $2.2 billion over ten years to expand funding for the homeless...."(Link)
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Relevant Stats on homeless: 
  • An estimated 150 million people, or 2% of the world's population, are homeless.
  • About 1.6 billion people, or more than 20% of the world population, lack adequate housing.
  • Approximately 235,000 Canadians experience homelessness each year.
  • 3.2% of the population in the Philippines are homeless
  • In Australia, around 120,000 people are homeless on any given night.
  • Nearly 60% of homeless people in South Africa live in shack dwellings.
  • In Japan, approximately 5,000 people are homeless.
  • On a single night in India, over 1.77 million people are homeless.
  • Around 30% of the world's homeless population resides in Europe.
  • Brazil has approximately 101,854 homeless individuals.
  • In the UK, an estimated 280,000 people were homeless as of December 2019.
  • In China, about 2.6 million people are considered homeless.
  • In Germany, it is estimated that 678,000 people were homeless in 2018.
  • In Russia, estimates for the number of homeless individuals vary between 1.5 million to 5 million.
  • Mexico's National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy reports that 55.3 million people, or approximately 46.2% of the population, live in poverty.
  • In Zimbabwe, an alleged 700,000 people were left homeless after a clearance operation according to Amnesty International.
  • In 2020, France had approximately 300,000 homeless people.
  • In South Korea, about 11,340 homeless people found in 2015..."(Link)
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Relevant Stats: "The 2023 edition of the report reveals that between 691 and 783 million people faced hunger in 2022, with a mid-range of 735 million. This represents an increase of 122 million people compared to 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic....The food security and nutrition situation remained grim in 2022. The report finds that approximately 29.6 percent of the global population, equivalent to 2.4 billion people, did not have constant access to food, as measured by the prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity. Among them, around 900 million individuals faced severe food insecurity.

Meanwhile, the capacity of people to access healthy diets has deteriorated across the world: more than 3.1 billion people in the world – or 42 percent – were unable to afford a healthy diet in 2021. This represents an overall increase of 134 million people compared to 2019. 

Millions of children under five continue to suffer from malnutrition: in 2022, 148 million children under five years of age (22.3 percent) were stunted, 45 million (6.8 percent) were wasted, and 37 million (5.6 percent) were overweight. " (Link)
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Relevant Material: "Drought is a prolonged dry period in the natural climate cycle that can occur anywhere in the world. It is a slow-onset disaster characterized by the lack of precipitation, resulting in a water shortage. Drought can have a serious impact on health, agriculture, economies, energy and the environment.

An estimated 55 million people globally are affected by droughts every year, and they are the most serious hazard to livestock and crops in nearly every part of the world. Drought threatens people’s livelihoods, increases the risk of disease and death, and fuels mass migration. Water scarcity impacts 40% of the world’s population, and as many as 700 million people are at-risk of being displaced as a result of drought by 2030.

Rising temperatures caused by climate change are making already dry regions drier and wet regions wetter. In dry regions, this means that when temperatures rise, water evaporates more quickly, and thus increases the risk of drought or prolongs periods of drought. Between 80-90% of all documented disasters from natural hazards during the past 10 years have resulted from floods, droughts, tropical cyclones, heat waves and severe storms..." (Link)

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