AWARD YEAR
2019
CATEGORY
Community
GOALS
Zero Hunger
KEYWORDS
sustainable food , communities, technology
COUNTRY
United Kingdom
DESIGNED BY
Tessa Cook
Saasha Celestial-One
WEBSITE
https://olioex.com
OLIO
connects neighbours with each other and with local shops to share surplus food
Between 33-50% of all food produced globally is never eaten, and the value of this wasted food is worth over $1 trillion. To put that in perspective, in the USA food waste represents 1.3% of the total GDP. Food waste is a massive market inefficiency, the kind of which does not persist in other industries.
Meanwhile 800 million people go to bed hungry every night. That is 1 in 9 people on the planet who are starving or malnourished. Each and every one of them could be sufficiently fed on less than a quarter of the food that is wasted in the USA, UK and Europe each year.
OLIO connects neighbours with each other and with local businesses so surplus food can be shared, not thrown away. This could be food nearing its sell-by date in local stores, spare home-grown vegetables, bread from the baker, or the groceries in your fridge when you go away. OLIO can also be used for non-food household items too.