The UK’s number one anti-food-waste app, Too Good To Go is on a mission to fight food waste and allows people to buy unsold food from local cafes, stores and restaurants for a reduced price.
Local businesses register with the app and allow people to purchase a ‘Magic Bag’ – the bag is then filled the bag with any produce not sold and that would otherwise be thrown away – and sold to at a reduced rate.
Customers won’t know exactly what’s in their order until they pick it up – it’s all part of the surprise.
Too Good To Go, has now expanded its partnership with Costa Coffee and now covers over 1,100 participating stores.
The Costa ‘Magic Bag’ – will consist of three or more items worth at least £10 (if purchased at full price), all reduced to the lower price of £3.
Paschalis Loucaides, UK country manager, Too Good To Go, said: “It’s been fantastic to count Costa Coffee as one of our partners since our first pilot launched in 2018 – so far saving over 100,000 Magic Bags of food from going to waste.
“Now that our partnership has expanded further, our app users can rescue their delicious fresh cakes, sandwiches, pastries and salads from an additional 1,000+ Costa Coffee stores nationwide.
“Moving forward, I’m excited to see how big an impact we can have fighting food waste together so that our dream of a planet with no food waste can become reality.”
Since it launched in the UK in 2018 Too Good To Go has saved over 3 million boxes of unsold food from going to waste across the UK and over 60 million boxes globally.
Too Good To Go estimates wasting 1 million meals has the same impact as driving around the earth 245 times, charging 300 million smartphones or burning 2.5 million pounds of coal.
