Campus food & drinkFood waste initiative
Each year, more than one-third of the food produced in the world for human consumption is wasted. That’s around 2.5 billion tons, and responsible for around a whopping 10% of the global greenhouse gas emissions. If you need help visualising it a little more, if food loss and waste were its own country it would be the third-largest source of greenhouse gas emissions. Climate experts agree that one of the most important things we can do to reduce our emissions and the impact of climate change is to waste less food.
Too Good to Go
The University of Strathclyde has teamed up with Too Good To Go to try and make sure good food gets eaten, not wasted. Where we have excess production or orders, the Too Good To Go app lets students and staff buy and collect Magic Bags of this fresh unsold food - at a great price - directly from us.
For every ‘Magic Bag’ of food rescued through the Too Good To Go app, we’re helping to save an approximate 4-5kg CO2e, and to work towards the University of Strathclyde goal of Net Zero by 2040 or sooner.
How does it work?
To get started, download the Too Good To Go app for free. Once registered, you can see all the outlets near you where you can rescue a meal. Then, purchase a Magic Bag, and collect it within the allotted collection window. You won’t know exactly what is in your Magic Bag until you pick it up – it's all part of the surprise. However, we aim to include £12 of goods and sell them at £4 each, ensuring that you’re still getting a great deal while doing your bit for the planet.
If you can, we’d recommend you bring your own Tupperware and bag to collect your goods in!
Locations
Currently, Too Good To Go is being offered at the following locations:
- Aura, Lord Hope building
- Caffeine Lab, James Weir building
- Flava, Curran building
- Grab and go, Learning and Teaching building
- Sport Café, Strathclyde Sport
- Synergi 2 Go, Technology and Innovation centre
- Urban Bean, Sir William Duncan building
Mark downs
Towards the end of each day - around 15 minutes before closing - we will significantly reduce the price of fresh items that are due to expire by up to 75%.
Should we have excess or short coded packaged products we will offer them at a significantly reduced price in our retail outlets to try and sell through as much as possible in the run up to the use by date.
Community donations
Where we have excess stock that can’t be sold in our cafes or hospitality items that haven’t been served, we will donate it to rather than bin it. Our primary partners are the Strathclyde University Food Bank Society and Launch Foods.
If you have any suggestions of who else could benefit, then please let us know at nourish.catering@strath.ac.uk.
