App to sell restaurant leftovers to help reduce food waste

BRILLIANT IDEA: The idea behind a new app is to connect consumers with retailers, grocers and restaurants who would sell their excess foodstuffs at discounted prices.

As the dialogue on the shameful amount of food waste grows louder, US developers are in the midst of creating an innovative new app that will allow retailers and restaurants to sell their leftovers and overstocked products to consumers. 

Currently being tested in New York, PareUp aims to divert perfectly edible foods from landfills — day-old pastries, foods approaching their sell-by date and misshapen products that get the brush-off from consumers who’ve grown accustomed to perfectly round apples and symmetrical vegetables.