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Cut the food waste! The new app designed to save food

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July 20, 2015

Every year, between 12 and 15 million tonnes of food are destroyed in Germany alone. That doesn't make sense environmentally or economically. Something the inventors of FoodLoop want to change.

Barcodes contain a lot of information - including the item's sell-by date. The FoodLoop App uses that information to show users in the vicinity where there are foods on special offer because they're approaching their sell-by date.

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