…Around the country, apps that connect customers to businesses with leftover food have begun to spread. The concept is simple: Restaurants and grocery stores throw away huge amounts of food every day. Rather than trash it, apps like Too Good To Go and Flashfood help businesses sell it at a reduced price. They claim that the businesses and buyers are helping the environment because the food would otherwise become food waste, a big contributor to climate change.
The apps, which make money by taking a portion of each sale, promote themselves with language that sounds more like a call to arms than a grocery list. "Fight against food waste," reads the Flashfood description. The Too Good To Go promo calls users "food waste warriors."
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