A food service app is allowing customers to buy restaurant food at a low price before it goes into the waste bin.

Too Good To Go provides buyers with a bag of nearly wasted, but perfectly good food for takeaways as a way to cut food waste and help support the restaurant industry. 【小题1】 The app is one of the several winners of Fast Company's 2021 World Changing Ideas Award, which reports that 40% of the food in America is wasted.

【小题2】 However, it's possible to know how many meals the app has prevented from going there. Originally sold only in a few selected American cities, 200,000 meals have been sold. 【小题3】 And over 1,500 restaurants have signed up in cities like New York, Boston, and Los Angeles. At present, 150,000 orders are going out the door per day in 15 countries. 【小题4】

It is also easier for the restaurants since it's nearly impossible to guess and predict what will be available at the end of any night. Decomposing（分解）food in landfills is a major source of methane（甲烷）, which can cause climate—related damage before completely decomposing after a decade. “We think we can save more than 2 million meals from the trash in the U.S. in 2021. 【小题5】” said Lucie Basch, co-founder of Too Good To Go.