The Menu: Food news with Joe McNamee
FoodCloud Hubs (formerly the award-winning Bia Food Initiative) is an internationally acclaimed-Irish social enterprise that has pioneered the redistribution of surplus or ‘waste’ food from retailers to local charities, beginning with its first distribution centre in Little Island, in Cork, and they have just launched the third national hub, in Oranmore, in Galway. With Irish households and businesses generating enough food waste annually to fill Croke Park to the brim, two-and-a-half times, Food Cloud/Food Cloud Hubs have to date redistributed over 41 million meals to 7,500 charities all over Ireland and the UK and this latest centre increases the focus on the West of Ireland, where it has already distributed more than 400 tons of food. Food businesses anywhere in the country seeking to donate their own surplus produce can find further details at https://food.cloud
