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• Too Good To Go connects people with food that shops and restaurants would otherwise have thrown away, from baked goods to groceries. It is the world’s largest anti-food waste app, with almost 20 million users across 15 countries, who have to date saved more than 30 million meals.
• One-third of all food produced for human consumption goes to waste; this comes at a huge environmental cost, responsible for about 8% of the world's greenhouse gases plus the land, water and other resources used to produce the food¹. Too Good To Go estimates to have saved over 76-thousand tons of CO2².
• The certified B-Corporation³ employs about 500 people and works with almost 40,000 food partners, including Lidl, Morrisons, Starbucks and Pizza Hut. They plan to open in New York and Boston in late 2020.
• Too Good To Go partners with the FAO⁴ to distribute free educational material to young people and, as confusion about the difference between 'best before' and 'use by' dates accounts for 10% of food waste⁵, also works with producers like Carlsberg and Nestle to improve labelling⁶.
• Too Good To Go has won various awards including Europe's hottest start up at Next Web 2019⁷, while Mette previously co-founded fitness app Endomondo which later sold to US sports brand Under Armour and now has more than 30-million users globally.

¹ FAO Food waste, 2011
²  CO2 saving methodology
³  B-Corp certification
⁴  FAO partnership
⁵  EU study on date marking
⁶  Food labelling scheme
⁷  Next Web 2019 award