The Herman Trend AlertJune 9, 2021Mobile App Cuts Food WasteEarly in the Pandemic, due to major dislocations in the food supply chain, most of us saw or read about virtually tons of food being destroyed. Honestly, watching the mountains of produce being turned over and the millions of eggs and
By Nina Felicidario
Despite setbacks from the pandemic, a food waste reduction company has diverted over 50 million pounds of food from landfills.
Flashfood is a mobile marketplace that connects surplus food in grocery stores with local shoppers to help sell food that will get disposed of in landfill if it isn’t sold within a day or two. Users open the app to order and buy groceries at a discounted rate then pick them up from participating stores.
The company that launched in Canada had successful rollouts this year in over a thousand stores. They are implemented in Meijer stores in Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and Kentucky; Giant Food Stores in Pennsylvania; Stop and Shop supermarkets in Massachusetts; Tops Friendly Markets in New York and Giant Eagle supermarkets in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
By Nina Felicidario
I remember vividly the night that I got out of my car to see blood and fur sprawled onto the headlights.
My stomach dropped.
After years of mindlessly passing roadkill, I produced it when I struck a deer on a Michigan road, causing it to fly nearly 100 yards from my car. I felt heartache and guilt when I walked up to it and saw the lifeless eyes of the deer laying on the grass.
I had taken the life of an animal.
Since then, I’ve noticed a concerning amount of roadkill while driving to work each morning. It makes me wonder if this abundance of roadkill detaches us from our compassion for the death of animals.