Age of Plastic

How Odd Box are helping our huge food waste problem with wonky veg!

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How do you pick your veg? Shiniest apples? Biggest potatoes? Absolutely no brown spots on your bananas? Terrifyingly even before it leaves the farm for our shops there’s a massive amount of food that is wasted. A third in fact! Worth 17 billion pounds! Why is this? Well find out from today’s guest… Odd Box is a London's first and only fruit and veg box that fights food waste by rescuing fresh and delicious surplus & wonky produce straight from the farm. Co-founder of ODD BOX Emilie Vanpoperinghe decided wonky veg is where it’s at! Hear all about Odd Box’s food waste revolution, and get 50% off your first Odd Box delivery with the code AGEOFPLASTIC www.oddbox.co.uk How bad are bananas? Book https://profilebooks.com/how-bad-are-bananas.html Hear from Odd Box suppliers https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKwQfxpiFjC44olpDslpTIQ Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall https://www.rivercottage.net/war-on-waste ECO LIFE HACK https://co2.myclimate.org/