Sep 3, 2020 | General, Hospitality, News
China has launched a new campaign against food waste. This happened after Chinese President Xi Jinping insisted on this. He called the numbers of food wasted in China shocking and disturbing. The COVID-19 crisis and severe floods are also related to the...
Jul 22, 2020 | General, Hospitality, News, Tech and development, Video & Audio
A Swiss start-up is helping companies measure their food waste. After all, we have to measure things often to be able to improve them. The Kitro company has designed an AI rubbish bin that measures how much food is thrown away. In this way, companies gain insight into...
Jun 22, 2020 | General, Hospitality, News, Producers, Supermarkets and retail
Roompot has entered into a partnership with Too Good To Go, which means that they can save about 20,000 meals annually. Currently, there are 19 different parks from Roompot that offer daily surpluses in the Too Good To Go app. The so-called “Magic Boxes”...
May 5, 2020 | Farmers and gardeners, General, Hospitality, Institutions, News, Producers, Research, Research news, Supermarkets and retail, Tech and development
A new research report shows that we need to change the way we produce and distribute food to ensure better food security in the future. This is concluded by European scientists concerned with the question of how this change should take place. Katrien Termeer,...
Mar 12, 2020 | General, Hospitality, Institutions, News, Tech and development
In the Netherlands, approximately 200,000 tons of food are thrown away every year. This concerns both foods that have already been prepared and unprepared foods. The start-up Zero foodwaste wants to provide insight into this waste pattern in the catering industry by...
Nov 8, 2019 | Farmers and gardeners, General, Hospitality, Institutions, News, Producers, Supermarkets and retail
Before the products even arrive in store there is already almost $400 billion lost in food waste worldwide. This was shown by research by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) from the United Nations. Every year no less than 14% of all food is lost, the report...
