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Firm tackles food waste with surplus food boxes

Mousumi Bakshi/ BBC Two women in high visibility jackets pack cardboard boxes on top of a wooden pallet. They are in a vast warehouse environment. Mousumi Bakshi/ BBC
The warehouse in Kettering has received more than a million food products in the first few weeks of operation

A social impact company said it was fighting waste with a service delivering parcels of discounted surplus food to people.

Too Good to Go make food parcels at the Ceva Logistics warehouse in Kettering, Northamptonshire.

Customers can order boxes of excess food from manufacturers that would otherwise have been thrown away.

Co-founder Jamie Crummie, 33, described it as a "triple win" for consumers, businesses and the environment.

Mousumi Bakshi/ BBC A man with dark blonde swept back hair and a beard wearing a high visibility jacket stands in a warehouse with people packing in the backgroundMousumi Bakshi/ BBC
Jamie Crummie co-founded Too Good to Go in 2015 to combat food waste

"About 40% of the food we produce globally gets wasted but we are able to rescue that food," he said.

Stuart Hearn, the business development manager at Ceva logistics, said: "We receive up to four containers of products per day, and we've received in excess of a million items in the first few weeks of operation."

In the UK, the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) estimated that in 2021, total food waste in the UK amounted to 10.7 million tonnes.

WRAP said it was costing UK households hundreds of pounds per year.

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