Food: share more, waste less

The photo for this post was done in Tbilisi, Georgia (Sakartvelo) in the city center near the big and famous hotel with restaurant. I remember very well that the picture of the food in the waste bin impressed me significantly. That gives me a courage and inspiration to write this post.

In a world where the demand for food continues to rise, the issue of food waste is demanding urgent attention. Can you imagine? One-third of the world’s food is lost or wasted annually. The food discarded each year could feed the population of India and the United States combined.

I am sure that food waste is the key element in building a circular economy. It’s great that in our days more and more food waste prevention projects appear around the world. Share with you some of them for the dozen of inspiration. 

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Global circular economy projects to prevent food waste

Too Good to Go is the app that lets you rescue unsold food at your favorite spots from an untimely fate. Available in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany Ireland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States.

Olio App makes it easy to pass on the stuff you no longer need. Including food. The app is available to be used anywhere in the world. Food has been successfully shared in over 51 countries so far!

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Countries locally also dealing with food waste

countries are placed in alphabet order

🌍 Albania, Tirana
🔉 Food Bank Albania project that helps to distribute donated food to families who have an income below the national poverty line.
✋🏻How to help: become a volunteer

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🌍 Australia 
🔉 Second Bite it’s Australia’s largest food rescue organization that rescues surplus food from farmers, retailers, manufacturers and distributes it to local charities and non-profits around the country.
✋🏻How to help: become a volunteer writing articles about the project, helping with events organization, preparing and delivering food, or making a donation.

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🌍 Belarus, Minsk
*Info credits to Elena Franskevich
🔉 Foodsharing group in social media VK: here you can post photos and descriptions of your unnecessary food as well as your contact information. Usually, it would take a few hours and someone would write to take it.
✋🏻How to help: be part of the community and donate/take unnecessary food when relevant.

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🌍 Bulgaria, Sofia
🔉 Foodo Box is the app that lets you save money by rescuing delicious surplus meals.
✋🏻How to help: find the nearest cafe/restaurant place and grab your tasty food with a discount!

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🌍 Indonesia, Bali
🔉 Food Bank Bali is a volunteer-led project that helps to deliver food to the poorest. By the way, the project is growing! And is becoming available for Kenya and India now.
✋🏻How to help: make a donation

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🌍 Montenegro, Podgorica
🔉 Food (and not only) sharing group in Telegram “Nemagazin”.
✋🏻How to help: share unnecessary food to prevent food waste: post photos and descriptions of your unnecessary food as well as your contact information.

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🌍Poland, Warsaw
🔉 Food Sharing Project with offline locations where you can leave food for donation. Find the map of locations here (so far only in Warsaw). 
Food.si Project will help you not only “save food” but also save money 😉
✋🏻How to help: donate food: bring it to one of the locations on the map

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🌍 Sakartvelo (Georgia), Batumi & Poti
🔉 Charity foundation “Sea of Friendships” organize city infrastructure for food sharing in Batumi and Poti cities.
✋🏻How to help: be a volunteer, make a donation to become a member or bring unwanted food to one of the fridge

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Did not find your country or your favorite food waste prevention project?
Not a problem! Write in comments or Direct Messages on Instagram and it will be added almost immediately!

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🏆Bonus: Instagram pages for inspiration

Anna Sacks who is well-known as the @thetrashwalker bravely digs into waste bins and pays our attention to overproduction and the necessity to prevent food waste. 

Max La Manna @maxlamanna low-waste (and vegan) chef who will inspire you for truth magic in the kitchen cooking from ingredients that most of us can consider waste.

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🔊 I encourage you to share this post on your social media: spread the word about circular economy solutions to deal with food waste!