The world's largest anti-food waste app, Too Good To Go, insights with Jamie Crummie

In this podcast, Shane is joined by Jamie Crummie, co-founder of the world's largest anti-food waste app, Too Good To Go. Jamie discusses the work Too Good To Go does and what the inspiration behind the company was as well as the importance of solving the issue of food waste and how tech can be used to solve it.

Jamie also explains the steps consumers can take to tackle the issue of food waste at home and gives his tips for businesses trying to become more sustainable. Finally, Jamie discusses how big of an issue food waste is now compared to when he began working to tackle the issue, Consumer trends in Ireland since launch compared to other countries and Too Good To Go's plans for the year ahead.

About Jamie Crummie

Jamie Crummie trained as a lawyer before pursuing his mission of fighting food waste. He is the co-founder of Too Good To Go, the world’s largest marketplace for surplus food. The app lets consumers buy unsold food from restaurants and retailers so that it doesn’t go to waste.

Too Good To Go is now active in 17 countries and has 45 million users who have rescued over 100 million meals collectively.

Jamie was named a Trailblazing Activist in the 50 Next class of 2021, One Young World’s Entrepreneur of the Year in August 2020, one of Forbes 30 Under 30 in Europe in February 2019 and was shortlisted for the Entrepreneur For Good Award at the Natwest Great British Entrepreneur Awards 2019.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Jamiecrummie

Too Good To Go: https://toogoodtogo.ie/en-ie

About Shane

Shane is currently interning with Irish Tech News. He is in his third year of studying Journalism at NUI Galway where he also studies IT and has an interest in programming and web development.