Zero-waste app OLIO is rapidly scaling, letting retailers and households donate or swap surplus food and other goods in local communities in 50+ countries.
Why
$1tn of food wasted
⅓ of the world’s food gets wasted yearly, which could feed 2bn people, or the undernourished population twice
No food-sharing platforms
Businesses and individuals are unable to quickly donate surplus food before expiration dates.
Scarce agricultural resources wasted
A quarter of freshwater supplies and arable lands are wasted producing unconsumed food thrown away.
Market
$1tn
Value of food wasted globally annually, or 1.3bn tons. That’s ⅓ of the food produced, equivalent to the third-largest CO2 producer by country: WFP.
The rest of the content is only available if you are logged in.
