These initiatives may change your eating habits
Every year, enormous amounts of food are thrown away. In Europe, the Netherlands is the country which wastes the most — €2.5 billion worth of edible food a year. However, these initiatives which were set up to reduce food waste can change your mindset.
NoFoodWasted
&30, %50, %70 discounts! Sounds so tempting, doesn’t it? With this app, you can buy cut-price grocery food.
NoFoodWasted has developed a free app called Afgeprijsd (Discount) which alerts you and shows you at a glance which products close to their best-before date are marked down near you. Just select a supermarket near you, then get an overview of all the marked-down products in your shopping list.
The app scooped NRC Live Impact Startup of the Year award — a price for the most social and sustainable impact. Since 2014, it has around 40.000 costumers.
The app can prevent the grocery retails from overstocking. It isn’t just about the shopper. It is about the entire supply chain: ‘If a consumer buys more economically, buys what he needs, then a supermarket can order less…and there’s less waste, then the farmer can only produce what we need. The aim is to reduce food waste in the whole sector; to turn around a supply-driven market to a demand-driven market.’
Across the Netherlands, almost 200 grocery stores have already signed up. Soon available in Belgium, Germany and the UK.
De Verspillingsfabriek
Due to strict cosmetic standards, imperfect fruits and vegetables are rejected by food retails. Even the vegetable has a little scar or a slight skin blemish, which has no impact on taste or the freshness of the vegetable, it gets rejected.
Yet, at De Verspillingsfabriek — or ‘Waste Factory’ whose motto is ‘Wij staan voor de rest’ (We stand up for the leftovers), sauces, soups and stews are made from the wonky shaped or over-ripe vegetables discarded by farmers and supermarkets, which are about to go out of date. Under the brand Barstensvol (fit to burst), smartly-packaged products are then sold in grocery stores or sold back to the suppliers to sell under their own label.
Also, the employees are the “leftovers” from the society just like the rejected vegetables. Working alongside associations like START Foundation and WSD, De Verspillingsfabriek employ the vulnerable: early school-leavers, the elderly, and people with a disability.
Instock
Founded in 2014 by four Albert Heijn employees who realized how much food was tossed in the trash, Instock is a nonprofit restaurant chain whose meals are made with rescued food. Today, Instock has restaurants in Amsterdam, The Hague and Utrecht, as well as a vintage fire engine which has been converted into a food truck which you can rent for your event.
The menu is largely reliant on the haul of the day — on the food which is reaching its best before date at the 80 participating Albert Heijn stores. Besides, they have been producing locally brewed craft beer called Pieper (Potato) Bier made from rejected potatoes. They have also created a recipe book. The book contains meals made of multiple combinations of ingredients. Besides, by using preserving methods, you can turn your overripe banana into a healthy dried snack and your leftover cucumber into a tasty pickle. Moreover, they run masterclasses where people can learn how to assemble delicious and tasty dishes from leftover food.
BuurtBuik
BuurtBuik is an initiative inspired by the Portuguese Refood movement, which now distributes more than a thousand free meals a day. BuurtBuik’s mission is to eliminate food waste and hunger at the same time on a neighborhood basis. They are based in Amsterdam but expanding. Run by volunteers, they collect surplus food from restaurants, supermarkets and cook food together with local residents.
Kromkommer
Perfectly imperfect vegetables find their way to our stomachs. Launched in 2014, Kromkommer (crooked+cucumber) processes wonky and knobbly shaped vegetables into delicious soups. The soups are stocked in around 175 stores across the Netherlands, including Marqt and WAAR.
The soups are stocked in around 175 stores across the Netherlands, including Marqt and WAAR.
ResQ Club
Contributing to a more sustainable food chain, ResQ Club is a free app in which you can find cut-price top-quality restaurant meals that would otherwise go to waste as take-outs. It piloted in Helsinki in Finland in February 2016, and launched in Amsterdam afterwards. Over 200 000 meals, ResQ’d from over 1000 restaurants.
The app is an awesome way to reduce food waste while enjoying affordable top-quality foods!
The app will soon be available in Groningen and hopes to expand to Rotterdam and Utrecht. ResQ also operates in Estonia, Germany and Sweden.
Recently, FSEN partnered up with ResQ to give away the nuts mixed with dried fruits on donation basis that we rescued will be launched soon on this platform. Keep in touch!
Read more at DutchNews.nl
Are you an initiative tackling food waste? Send us an email for partnership opportunity: foodwastecollabamsterdam@gmail.com
NoFoodWasted
&30, %50, %70 discounts! Sounds so tempting, doesn’t it? With this app, you can buy cut-price grocery food.
NoFoodWasted has developed a free app called Afgeprijsd (Discount) which alerts you and shows you at a glance which products close to their best-before date are marked down near you. Just select a supermarket near you, then get an overview of all the marked-down products in your shopping list.
The app scooped NRC Live Impact Startup of the Year award — a price for the most social and sustainable impact. Since 2014, it has around 40.000 costumers.
The app can prevent the grocery retails from overstocking. It isn’t just about the shopper. It is about the entire supply chain: ‘If a consumer buys more economically, buys what he needs, then a supermarket can order less…and there’s less waste, then the farmer can only produce what we need. The aim is to reduce food waste in the whole sector; to turn around a supply-driven market to a demand-driven market.’
Across the Netherlands, almost 200 grocery stores have already signed up. Soon available in Belgium, Germany and the UK.
De Verspillingsfabriek
Due to strict cosmetic standards, imperfect fruits and vegetables are rejected by food retails. Even the vegetable has a little scar or a slight skin blemish, which has no impact on taste or the freshness of the vegetable, it gets rejected.
Also, the employees are the “leftovers” from the society just like the rejected vegetables. Working alongside associations like START Foundation and WSD, De Verspillingsfabriek employ the vulnerable: early school-leavers, the elderly, and people with a disability.
Founded in 2014 by four Albert Heijn employees who realized how much food was tossed in the trash, Instock is a nonprofit restaurant chain whose meals are made with rescued food. Today, Instock has restaurants in Amsterdam, The Hague and Utrecht, as well as a vintage fire engine which has been converted into a food truck which you can rent for your event.
BuurtBuik
BuurtBuik is an initiative inspired by the Portuguese Refood movement, which now distributes more than a thousand free meals a day. BuurtBuik’s mission is to eliminate food waste and hunger at the same time on a neighborhood basis. They are based in Amsterdam but expanding. Run by volunteers, they collect surplus food from restaurants, supermarkets and cook food together with local residents.
Kromkommer
Perfectly imperfect vegetables find their way to our stomachs. Launched in 2014, Kromkommer (crooked+cucumber) processes wonky and knobbly shaped vegetables into delicious soups. The soups are stocked in around 175 stores across the Netherlands, including Marqt and WAAR.
The soups are stocked in around 175 stores across the Netherlands, including Marqt and WAAR.
ResQ Club
Contributing to a more sustainable food chain, ResQ Club is a free app in which you can find cut-price top-quality restaurant meals that would otherwise go to waste as take-outs. It piloted in Helsinki in Finland in February 2016, and launched in Amsterdam afterwards. Over 200 000 meals, ResQ’d from over 1000 restaurants.
The app is an awesome way to reduce food waste while enjoying affordable top-quality foods!
The app will soon be available in Groningen and hopes to expand to Rotterdam and Utrecht. ResQ also operates in Estonia, Germany and Sweden.
Recently, FSEN partnered up with ResQ to give away the nuts mixed with dried fruits on donation basis that we rescued will be launched soon on this platform. Keep in touch!
Read more at DutchNews.nl
Are you an initiative tackling food waste? Send us an email for partnership opportunity: foodwastecollabamsterdam@gmail.com
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