Kettering firm tackles food waste with surplus food boxes

A social impact company said it was fighting waste with a service delivering parcels of discounted surplus food to people.

Too Good to Go has so far created about 50,000 of its "surprise boxes" at the Ceva Logistics warehouse in Kettering, Northamptonshire.

Customers can order boxes of excess food from supermarkets that would otherwise have been thrown away.

Co-founder Jamie Crummie, 33, described it as a "triple win" for consumers, businesses and the environment.

"About 40% of the food we produce globally gets wasted but we are able to rescue that food," he said.

Stuart Hearn, the business development manager at Ceva logistics, said: "We receive up to four containers of products per day, and we've received in excess of 1.4 million items in the first few weeks of operation."

In the UK, the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) estimated that in 2021, total food waste in the UK amounted to 10.7 million tonnes.

WRAP said it was costing UK households hundreds of pounds per year.