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...

Reducing restaurant's assortment in the last 15 minutes ( Netherlands Retail)

Reducing restaurant's assortment in the last 15 minutes ( Netherlands) Food waste has been reduced by not offering the complete assortment in the restaurant in the last fifteen minutes before closing time. Took place in restaurant of the Ministry of...

Dari Acordar, Zero Desperdicio ( Portugal Retail)

Dari Acordar, Zero Desperdicio ( Portugal) The Zero Waste movement takes all the food items that ended up in the trash before - food that never left the kitchen, food whose expiry date is nearing its end, or food that has not been exposed nor had...

Restlos Gluecklich (Germany Retail)

Restlos Glücklich (meaning “completely happy” or "happy without leftovers") where food surplus becomes a healthy and exciting menu, served up with a side of raising awareness. The volunteer-run initiative in Berlin is aimed at establishing a 'not for...

Plan Zheroes (Great Britain Retail)

Plan Zheroes ( Great Britain) Plan Zheroes mission is to find, support and inspire food businesses who are willing to donate their surplus food to local charities and people who need it, and promote them as Zero food Waste Heroes. We do this with an...

Le Panier de la Mer ( France Retail )

Le Panier de la Mer ( France) Every morning, each PLM, we get some of the unsold fish in auctions. Le panier de la mer is based Plomeur in Finistère. it has 5 five member associations federated to its national charter, spread over the territory....

Schenkingsbeurs - Bourse aux dons (Belgium: Retail, farming, processing)

The Schenkingsbeurs – Bourse aux dons is an online platform for surplus food donations in Belgium, available in Dutch and French. It allows all types of actors in the food chain to easily connect in real time with interested local social and food aid...

MaVieici.com (France Retail)

MaVieici.com ( France) Mavieici.com is a portal where producers, farmers, butchers, bakers and supermarket managers can indicate if they have food surplus that they agree to give away or to sell at a low price. The solutions fight food waste and help...

Cartographie interactive des associations d’aide alimentaire ( France Retail)

Cartographie interactive des associations d’aide alimentaire ( France) The tool has been launched by the of regional site of the Ministry for food and agriculture in Rhône-Alpes (DRAAF). To date, food donations from businesses are too small in relation...

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...