Feeding 5000 Events (Europe Retail)

Feeding 5000 events ( Europe) Campaign delivers high profile events in cities across Europe where food that would have been wasted is cooked & served to passers by. Over 36,000 people have signed the pledge. Around 5,000 meals are made at each event....

Eurest (Sweden Retail)

Eurest ( Sweden) One day each month the food left by consumers, food wasted during cooking and discarded food was all weighed. The result was demonstrated to guests as well as staff under the heading “This is how much waste we all generate during one...

GEEF Cafe (Netherlands Retail)

GEEF Cafe ( Netherlands) GIVE is a " pay as you can "restaurant. This means that at GIVE tasty, healthy meals with no prices on the menu. You decide what you pay. It is also possible to volunteer in exchange for a meal. In this way, we want to make...

FoRWaRd (Europe Retail)

FoRWaRd ( Europe) The project aims at promoting the integration of learning with working, in line with the provision “New skills for new jobs”. In particular, there is a need for a massive recovery of food waste, given that food suppliers are not...

Tente des glaneurs à Lille ( France Retail )

Tente des glaneurs à Lille ( France) At 13:30 every Sunday, 650 traders close down their stalls at Wazemmes market, one of the largest in Europe. At the same time, a few metres away, one stand like no other opens its doors, to the tent of the gleaners....

Les Confitures de Dominique (France Retail)

Les Confitures de Dominique ( France) Jams, chutneys and compotes from surplus produce. Dominique makes jams, chutneys and compotes from surplus produce from the food bank of Bordeaux. She sells them in grocery stores....

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...

FoodLoop ( Germany Household)

FoodLoop ( Germany) FoodLoop offers food retailers the first platform to promote discounted "best before date" on-sale deals in real time, directly to user's smartphones. The aim is to significantly reduce waste, increase revenue for grocery retailers,...