As we all know – food waste is a huge problem. Probably many of you often buy a lot of things, put them in the fridge, and then remembers about them after it’s way to late and they are already uneatable.
Here is a couple facts about wasting food:
- According to the newest ONS report – we waste 1 billion tons of food EVERY YEAR!
- There is enough food produced in the world to feed everyone (in the same time around 690 milions of people in underfeed)
- 1/3 – that much of the produced food is wasted in the USA (that causes more CO2 than the air lines generates…)
- The average american spends 1,3 tousand of dollars a year for a food that is going to waste
- Wasting food is worse than total emissions from flying (1.9%), plastic production (3.8%) and oil extraction (3.8%).
- If food waste was a country, it would be the third biggest emitter of greenhouse gases after USA and China.
The good thing is, there’s actually a lot we can do to prevent food waste. I think the easiest way to do it, is creating a meal plan for upcoming week and buying only needed ingredients. But of course, it’s easy to say. With help comes SMARTERWARE.
Company came up with the idea of containers and food tags working with an app, that helps you with remembering about the products in your fridge. When you tag a food, the countdown begins and an app will notify you when it’s time to eat the product. In an application you also got ideas of food and recipes you can use with tagged food.
Containers for storing leftovers, clips for closing bags and a Universal Connect that can be put onto everything from cardboard to glass. With Smarterware, you can tag the foods you love (or often lose track of) so you remember to eat them.
I think it’s really important to come up with ideas like this, that will help us with saving our planet. There’s a lot of things we can do to live more eco-friendly and definitely stopping food waste in our homes is one of them. Sadly, for now SMARTERWARE is not available to buy, the company stopped before launching the product.
SOURCES:
https://ovie.life
Great invention, maybe one day we will learn how to avoid food waste problem.
This is so great, I often forget about the food I bought, which is lying somewhere in the back of the refrigerator and I feel bad about it. I hope that a similar product will be created one day.
Great idea of lowering your personal food wasting print. The problem of buying too manny things and then simply forgetting about them is really getting out of hand this days. This would definitley help food waste at our houses.