The Food Loop

Food Loop is an app that aims to change people's behaviour on managing their food and help them minimise their domestic waste.

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Climate Change is a reality.

Day after day, we face new challenges that are making us to rethink our priorities and way of living. Food waste is one of the biggest causes of this massive acceleration. At the same time, being with no food is also one of our biggest fears.

While some countries are wasting food, many others are facing food insecurity and have no expectation of a change. We have to change our behaviour and understand this fight as a global battle.

Australia wastes thousands of tons of food every year. One in each 5 grocery bags goes straight to the bin. In US, up to 40 percent of all food produced is not eaten and ends up in the bin.

Landfills are dominated by food waste that produces methane as it rots, a gas 25 times more harmful to our environment than carbon dioxide.

Food Loop is an app that aims to change people’s behaviour on managing their food and help them minimise their domestic waste. With Food Loop, people can enter the type of food they have at home that they are not going to consume. After that, they have 3 options:

1. See TIPS of what to do with this specific food to avoid throwing it away (like freezing or making jam, for example).
2. Learn special RECIPES that uses the amount and kind of food they have at home, so they can prepare a meal using this surplus food, avoiding the bin again.
3. SHARE the food they are not going to use with their local community. Using this feature, people can easily post the food they are not using and a notification will pop-up into others community members mobile, advising them what is the location and time they can pick-up this excess food. It reinforces trust and communication between close neighbours and creates a massive new movement against food waste.

There’s so much more to be done in this topic.

This could be just the beginning of a global battle against food waste.