{"id":44269,"date":"2024-02-21T20:29:09","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T01:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=44269"},"modified":"2024-02-21T20:30:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T01:30:37","slug":"44269","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/44269\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado app addresses food waste and feeds &#8220;food insecure&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Denver and Boulder, Colorado the Too Good To Go app is changing the way we tackle food waste, offering a win-win solution for consumers and businesses alike.<\/p>\n<p>By connecting users with local eateries to purchase surplus food at a discount, the app not only saves money for both parties but also contributes to environmental sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>Since its introduction, it has collaborated with nearly 100 Denver-area businesses, saving around 24,000 meals from ending up in landfills.<\/p>\n<p>This initiative not only addresses the pressing issue of food waste\u2014where 40% of all U.S. food goes unsold or uneaten\u2014but also combats food insecurity, that affects one in three Coloradans.<\/p>\n<p>The app&#8217;s &#8220;Surprise Bags,&#8221; filled with end-of-day leftovers, are a creative and effective method to ensure food fulfills its purpose of feeding people, rather than contributing to greenhouse gas emissions from decomposition.<\/p>\n<p>As Too Good To Go expands its reach to include major grocery chains, it&#8217;s set to make an even more significant impact on reducing food waste and feeding more people within the community.<\/p>\n<p>Sources include: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/denver\/2024\/02\/20\/too-good-to-go-food-waste-app-boulder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Axios<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Denver and Boulder, Colorado the Too Good To Go app is changing the way we tackle food waste, offering a win-win solution for consumers and businesses alike. By connecting users with local eateries to purchase surplus food at a discount, the app not only saves money for both parties but also contributes to environmental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,9,215],"tags":[1309,275],"class_list":["post-44269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","category-todays-news","category-top-stories","tag-to-good-to-go","tag-top-story"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44269"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44273,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44269\/revisions\/44273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}