Zero to Food Hero – Yindii creating change from the bottom up

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A mobile application, Yindii, is on a mission to tackle food waste in Thailand, hoping to create change from the bottom up. The application sells surplus food, from bakeries, local merchants, hotels, and supermarkets, and which is very safe, high quality, and hygienic, but just needs to be eaten before the end of the day.

 

Every night, millions of tons of food are thrown in the trash, gone to waste, creating a carbon footprint, cutting short our lives on this planet. The UNEP Food Waste Index Report 2021 shows a total of 931 million tonnes of food is wasted each year. Nearly 570 million tonnes of this waste occurs at the household level.

 

Louis-Alban Batard-Dupre, the co-founder of the Food Rescue mission ‘Yindii’, said people are just beginning to get a grip on the environmental impact of wasted food, and someone somewhere is losing money, while people elsewhere are starving.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/zero-to-food-hero-yindii-creating-change-from-the-bottom-up/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2021-05-14

 

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