KOMOSIE (Belgium: Retail, farming, processing)

KOMOSIE (Koepel van Milieuondernemers in de Sociale Economie) is an expertise centre and contact point on ‘being/becoming a social innovative actor around food surplus’ in Flanders. We do this for social organisations, municipalities and social economy...

Sprecozero ( Italy Retail)

Sprecozero ( Italy) Sprecozero (Zero Waste) is a trademark issued by Last Minute Market. The supply of unsold edible foods is provided by processing industries, food shops, retail stores and the like. For these organisations, the surplus foods and...

Approved Food (Great Britain Retail)

Approved Food ( Great Britain) The majority of our stock is short-dated or past its best before date. We are able to buy in large quantities and pass considerable savings on to our customers. Starting off as market traders in Hull and Doncaster, Dan...

Bring the Food (Italy Retail)

Bring The Food ( Italy) "Bring The Food" is a crowd sourcing web /mobile application that allows donors to seamlessly publish offers and easily coordinate collections. Collectors can view the offers in their area on a map and reserve those that are...

Cotswolds restaurant invites locals to exchange their fruit & veg for a night out (Great Britain Retail)

Cotswolds restaurant invites locals to exchange their fruit & veg for a night out ( Great Britain) The Priory Inn, Tetbury has appealed to local gardeners to exchange their surplus fruit or vegetables for food and drink vouchers. Vouchers – to the...

People's Kitchen @ People's Supermarket ( Great Britain Retail)

People's Kitchen @ People's Supermarket ( Great Britain) To minimise wastage, the supermarket uses food coming up to its sell-by date to create prepared dishes and composts all other waste material. Th e Supermarket is a sustainable food cooperative.

Food We (Belgium Retail)

Food We ( Belgium) Foodwe allows food professionals to provide, through the internet, supplies of unsold but still edible food to charitable or civic associations. Distributors, producers, restaurants, hotels, small traders, auctions etc. can all use...

Food cycle (Great Britain Retail)

Food cycle ( Great Britain) We run 14 FoodCycle Hubs across the UK. Our Hubs are local projects where volunteers are trained up, supported and empowered to collect surplus food and cook it in spare kitchen spaces. Working with community partners we...

Alliance with the catering business - "Too good for the trash can" ( Germany Retail)

Alliance with the catering business - "Too good for the trash can" ( Germany) To reduce the amount of food waste, consumers will more frequently be able to choose between small and large portion sizes in the future, and unused foods will be more often...

Re-food 4 Good (Portugal Retail)

Re-food 4 Good ( Portugal) Since the launch of the project more than 500 volunteers, well over 100 partners and more than 500 people are fed daily(with a real cost less than 10 cents per meal). The first core was replicated for the first time, on...

Working on Waste (Great Britain Retail)

Working on Waste ( Great Britain) Working on Waste is an collaborative industry-wide campaign led by IGD to help reduce household food waste. The companies involved are planning many different activities, but as a minimum everyone participating has...

Menu Dose Certa ( Portugal Retail)

Menu Dose Certa ( Portugal) The restaurant could get the campaign's official seal 'Menu Dose Certa' (the right size), which provides both advertising for the restaurant and an economic benefit to the municipality as are retrieved less food waste. The...

Buffet Dreieck (Switzerland Retail)

Buffet Dreieck ( Switzerland) No waste - let's taste! Restaurant using food surplus from a local organic food chain. Work with people who have difficulties finding a job. http://www.buffetdreieck.ch/nowaste.php

“Resurskocken” ( Sweden Retail)

“Resurskocken” ( Sweden) Since 2007 the store has reduced its food waste by 80 percent and sells 350 hot lunches a day. The project has also led to a change in attitude among staff members, orders are no longer overdone and knowledge about recycling...

Äss-bar (Switzerland Retail)

Äss-bar ( Switzerland) Alarmed by the shocking fact that 1/3 of all Swiss food goes to waste, consumers and producers are increasingly concerned about current food waste levels. This is where Äss-bar comes in - in collaboration with bakery chains they...

Next Door Help (Italy Retail)

Next Door Help ( Italy) Next Door Help is described as the first geo-localized item-sharing service connecting those with items or food for redistribution with those who require the items. http://nextdoorhelp.it/

Zéro Gâchis ( France Retail )

Zéro Gâchis ( France) Zéro Gâchis is a web and mobile platform that allows consumers to find food products near them at a significant discount (30-70% off) that need to be consumed rapidly (as nearing their sell-by date). https://zero-gachis.com/

Phénix (France Retail)

Phénix ( France) Convinced that the future is the collaborative economy and the optimized management of existing resources, the team PHENIX came together to create a pioneering organization of waste reduction and waste; and integrate this new...

Original Underpackt (Germany Retail)

Original Underpackt ( Germany) Original Unpacked is the first supermarket that does not use disposable packaging. The foods are kept in so-called bulk bins and can be transferred with the simplest means to the customers' own containers or in the case...

Less School Cafeteria Food in the Bins ( Sweden Retail)

Environment Authority of Gothenburg Municipality ( Sweden) The Environment Authority of Gothenburg Municipality developed an information campaign about environmental and financial consequences of food waste for the schools in the municipality. Teachers...