The Menu: A restaurant in a car park, fighting food waste and proper pesto from Galway
Glovebox is an exciting and innovative new space on the upper flowers a multi-story carpark in Dublin, offering food and drink along with a whole range of social and cultural experiences.
If the emissions from global food waste were assigned to one country, it would take third place only behind the US and China as the highest emitter of carbon dioxide into the earth’s atmosphere with a staggering 3.3 billion tons each year, with some 1.3 billions tons of food wasted around the world annually, a figure that should also be considered in light of the 870 million people who go hungry each day around the world. In Ireland, we are no less guilty, wasting enough food to fill Croke Park to the brim twice over and then return for a third time to fill it up again to half way.
The truly superb FoodCloud began back in 2012 when two young students, motivated by a love of food and appalled by food waste, Iseult Ward and Aoibheann O’Brien, first conceived of the idea and they have since steered the ship as it has become an international organisation re-directing potentially wasted food, connecting retailers to deserving charities and communities, using their technology platform to complement and enhance the operation of food banks, and establishing large storage and distribution hubs to manage larger volumes.
