Waste reduction app diverts food from landfills
By Nina Felicidario Despite setbacks from the pandemic, a food waste reduction company has diverted over 50 million pounds of food from landfills. Flashfood is a mobile marketplace that connects surplus food in grocery stores with local shoppers to help sell food that will get disposed of in landfill if it isn’t sold within a day or two. Users open the app to order and buy groceries at a discounted rate then pick them up from participating stores. The company that launched in Canada had successful rollouts this year in over a thousand stores. They are implemented in Meijer stores in Michiga...
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