Property News · January 28, 2017

Fighting food waste with an app… and a measuring spoon


In a year-long experiment, families in Swadlincote tried to cut food waste by 50% – and attempt to save hundreds of poundsLisa Edwards is busy unpacking shopping for the following day’s dinosaur-themed birthday party for her toddler Max, but is happy to show Guardian Money into her kitchen and explain – short of actually rifling through her bin – how she and her family have reduced their food waste by more than three quarters over the past year, saving £1,000.“We were definitely wasting some food before we got involved in the project but the problem was that we just didn’t know how much,” she says. After Max chucks a banana on the floor, she weighs it on scales which are connected, via her iPad, to an app called Winnow. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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