mrt 16, 2016 | General, News
15-03-2016 | Modern farming has a huge problem with food waste, stemming from the mismatch between specific food buyer requirements vs Mother Nature delivering an unsaleable overabundance and/or producing knobbly fruit and veg that gets devalued on aesthetic grounds....
mrt 10, 2016 | General, News
10-03-2016 | An app that helps food retailers donate their surplus food to charity is being rolled out in Tesco stores across the UK. TAAP’s Food Surplus Application is available to all food retailers and was introduced into a number of Tesco stores at Christmas 2015...
mrt 10, 2016 | General, News
04-03-2016 | The East Coast chain just kicked off its ‘Produce with Personality’ pilot, which will make ugly fruits and vegetables available at prices 20-25 percent below their standard produce. Funny, Imperfect, Inglorious, Misfit, Ugly, Unloved. These are just a few...
mrt 9, 2016 | General, News
05-03-2016 | Giant watermelons ripen on the field but they won’t make it to market – too big to fit in the fridge. The same fate befalls curvy cucumbers and tomatoes that exceed the width of a burger bun. Too big, too small, a slightly off color, an unusual shape – in...
mrt 5, 2016 | FLW, General, News
03-03-2016 | “How much food does the average European household throw away every year, and how can we make better use of food that has been produced?” This was one of the main subjects of a discussion with European Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis,...
feb 25, 2016 | General, News
23-02-2016 | A charity has opened Denmark’s first ever food surplus supermarket. The store in capital city Copenhagen called Wefood will sell produce at prices 30 to 50 per cent cheaper than normal supermarkets. Per Bjerre from the NGO behind the market,...
