OLIO’s Food Waste Heroes Programme

 We connect trained volunteers with local businesses to collect their unsold food, stopping it from going to waste. Once collected, our volunteers then redistribute it to their local community via the OLIO app. We work closely with businesses of all shapes and sizes, including supermarkets, quick service restaurants, contract caterers, retail sites, rapid delivery companies, logistics businesses and more.

Website: olioex.com/ Contact: Cozzi Baring [email protected] / 07738 005 804

Impact in numbers (as at May 2022)

Through OLIO’s Food Waste Heroes Programme partnerships to date, we’ve:

• Saved 21,489,716 meals worth of food

• Saved 6,742,183,515 litres of water

• Avoided 38,925,926 kgs of CO2 emissions

Examples of industry partners

Tesco, Pret a Manger, Costa, Booker, Planet Organic, Eurostar, Express Vending, Compass Catering

What we do with the food

Our volunteers collect food from local stores, and list each item on the OLIO app. Neighbours then get in touch with our volunteers through the app to arrange a doorstep handover. Food ends up on tables, not in the bin, and communities can see how local businesses are making a positive impact.

Operations

We can collect all edible food types, including:

• Same day “use by” date

• Hot, chilled or frozen food

• Loose ingredients

We offer round-the-clock collections, including:

• 24/7 pickups

• Ad hoc or regular

Our average redistribution time is 30 minutes and we can cope with any volumes, from carrier bags to full pallets

We create minimal disruption for businesses through our easy to use API integrations

Wider network

OLIO works closely with FareShare to offer businesses maximum coverage

Key programmes/capabilities

OLIO’s tech offers full transparency on where food ends up after distribution.

We track the social and environmental impact of every collection, and report this data back to the companies we work with.

Testimonials

“Since our partnership began I have been amazed at what’s been delivered. The pace and strength your team has shown in adapting to a continuously changing market - and the variations in technologies you have managed to adapt to to integrate seamlessly with our systems - are skills which are rare amongst emerging companies.”

Ben Dingley, Food Waste Operations Project Manager, Tesco

“We spent years scouring the market for a partner with the necessary food handling processes to redistribute this unavoidable waste, and OLIO was the first we came across that had the necessary capabilities. We have seen some enormous benefits since embarking on our partnership, and if more companies engaged with this wonderful initiative the amount of food wasted could be dramatically reduced, not to mention the enormous impact it can have in addressing issues relating to poverty and hunger in communities.”

Peter Marsh, formerly CEO of Planet Organic