The app that matches surplus food with the hungry

[NelsonG]

Plenty of businesses throw a ridiculous amount of catering into the garbage every day, often as people go hungry on the streets outside their office buildings. 

What if there was a push-button way of matching the surplus with the demand? What if an app could actually be useful in this situation?

That's the premise behind Copia, a service for on-demand food donations. It offers an easy way for businesses to provide their uneaten food to nearby shelters and other nonprofits that provide food to people in need. 

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Here's how it works: businesses, event hosts or any other group that wants to make a donation snaps a photo of their extra food — Copia takes anything, cooked or uncooked, packaged or unpackaged — and schedule a pickup time in the app or website.   Read more...

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