About this episode

Tessa Clarke discusses how Olio is addressing food waste by connecting communities to redistribute surplus food.

Food waste is one of the biggest environmental challenges we rarely talk about, with the average UK household throwing away around £1,000 worth of perfectly good food every year. In this episode, we are joined by Tessa Clarke, co-founder of Olio, to explore how a simple idea has grown into a global community redistributing millions of meals. We discuss why so much food is wasted at home, what businesses and governments could do differently, and how technology is helping connect neighbours to ...

People in this episode

Hosts: James Piper, Robbie Staniforth

Guest: Tessa Clarke

Topics covered

• food waste
• environmental challenges
• community
• technology
• redistribution
• sustainability

Keywords

• food waste
• Olio
• Tessa Clarke
• environment
• sustainability
• community
• technology
• redistribution

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Olio

Places: UK

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