減少浪費！用app買剩余食物吧
App Lets You Buy Leftover Food From Restaurants And It's Really Cheap
Here's a situation where takeout is more cost efficient than cooking at home.
如今,比起在家燒飯,外賣更為經濟實惠.
Too Good To Go, an app operating in the UK, allows users to order leftover food at a discount from restaurants, according to the website. The goal is to help curb waste from establishments that typically toss out perfectly edible food at the end of the day.
Too Good To Go是一款正在英國運營的手機應用.根據該應用官網介紹,使用該應用的用戶能以折扣價從餐廳訂購剩余食物.這款應用旨在幫助餐廳控制浪費,因為這些餐廳會在營業結束后將還能吃的食物倒掉.
Users simply log in, pick a restaurant, and pay through the app.
用戶只需進行簡單的注冊,挑選一家餐廳,并通過應用付款.
Then they pick up their food at designated times―usually around closing or after peak meal times, according to the Telegraph.
據英國《每日電訊報》報道,用戶需要在指定的時間內領取訂購的食物——通常是在打烊或是用餐高峰之后.
"Food waste just seems like one of the dumbest problems we have in this world,"co-founder James Crummie told Business Green."The restaurant industry is wasting about 600,000 tonnes of food each year, and in the UK alone there are one million people on emergency food parcels from food banks. Why do we have these two massive social issues that are completely connected, yet there is not much going on to address them?"
"食物浪費似乎是世界上最愚蠢的問題之一."該款應用的聯合創始人詹姆斯•克拉米向綠色商業講道."餐飲業每年浪費約60萬噸食物.單單在英國,每年就有100萬人接受來自食品銀行的應急食品包救濟.為什么我們會面臨兩個重大且緊密相關的社會問題,然而對此的解決力度卻遠遠不夠呢？"
Users also have the option to give meals to people in need by donating 1 British pound or more through the app, according to the website. More than 1,100 meals have been donated so far.
該應用官網稱,用戶還可以通過在軟件上捐贈一英鎊及以上的錢款,為需要幫助的人提供食物.目前為止,該應用收到了1100多頓餐的捐款.
Treat yourself to a nice lunch through TGTG today! Eat well and reduce food waste. #FeedBelliesNotBins
打開TGTG,犒賞自己一頓美味的午餐吧！吃得好,浪費少.#FeedBelliesNotBins
—Too Good To Go UK (@TooGoodToGo_UK) July 28, 2016
—來自Too Good To Go 英國 (@TooGoodToGo_UK) 2016年7月28日
Founded in Denmark last year, Too Good To Go was launched this year in the UK and is expanding to other countries. The app is available in Brighton, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds, and will be in London later this month.
Too Good To Go去年剛在丹麥成立,并在今年正式登陸英國,還正向其他國家擴張業務.目前,這款手機應用在布萊頓、伯明翰、曼切斯特和利茲市等地均可使用.到本月底,倫敦業務即將開通.
Food waste is a major problem worldwide. In the US alone, up to 40 percent of food goes uneaten―meanwhile one in six households didn't have enough money for food last year.
在全世界范圍內,食物浪費是一個大問題.單單在美國,殘剩食物就高達40%.與此同時,去年,每六個家庭中就有一個家庭無法負擔食品支出.
