ENVIRONMENT
I lived on food waste for a week to save the planet (and money)
The food app Too Good to Go has 80 million users. Its aim? To help high street chains get rid of unwanted products at a fraction of the price — which is good for them, the environment and our wallets. Georgina Roberts tests it out
Georgina Roberts, 27: “You probably won’t eat dinner before 9pm and can’t negotiate, but the savings are undeniable”
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My last housemate was so paranoid about eating mouldy food that I came home most nights to find her riffling through the fridge, ruthlessly throwing out packets of in-date products. Tomatoes going off in two days’ time? Bin. Sourdough loaf open for three days? Bin. “You’re not seriously going to eat that, are you?” she’d ask with a horrified look when I would fish said packet out of the rubbish and add the tomatoes to my pasta.
Today I’m taking that one step further.
It’s 11am on a drizzly Tuesday and I’m off to eat leftovers. I’m spending the week living off the surplus food that local cafés, restaurants, supermarkets and bakeries haven’t been able to sell and that would otherwise be binned, using a
