New App Launched In Baltimore Aimed To Help Reduce Food Waste

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — It whitethorn beryllium astonishing to hear, but according to the USDA upwards of 40 percent of nutrient is wasted.

However, a caller app precocious launched present successful Baltimore is looking to alteration that portion providing you with a large deal.

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The app is called “Too Good To Go” and it connects consumers with leftover products. Pitango Bakery and Cafe and Pitango Gelato successful Fells Point usage the app for their homemade pastries astatine the extremity of the day.

“Part of our occupation is to make a welcoming situation with tons of bully options for you and truthful successful bid to bash that we’re ever going to person immoderate things leftover,” said Emma Leibman, the General Manager of Pitango Gelato successful Fells Point.

While donating the leftovers isn’t ever an option, “Too Good To Go” helps bounds waste.

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At the extremity of the day, businesses battalion their leftover nutrient oregon beverages successful astonishment bags which are past sold connected the app astatine a fraction of the cost.

“We really speech astir rather a batch this win, win, triumph proposition,” said Claire Oliverson, the US Head of Marketing for Too Good To Go. “When you trim nutrient waste, and you prime up a astonishment bag, you are helping those section businesses trim their nutrient waste. The satellite wins, each astonishment container is the equivalent of CO2 of charging your smartphone 422 times, and past each of america consumers, you get large nutrient for a 3rd of the price.”

So far, much than 80 restaurants successful Baltimore enactment helping to prevention much than 4,000 meals. It’s a win, win, triumph script — combat nutrient waste, pull customers and supply delicious creations astatine a immense discount.

“Every clip you prime up a bag, I person to accidental that’s erstwhile it each benignant of clicks, and you person this feeling of, I conscionable can’t judge that this astonishing nutrient would person gone to discarded if I hadn’t been present to prime it up,” said Oliverson.

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Too Good to Go is perpetually looking to adhd caller businesses and grow into the surrounding counties.

Sean Streicher