The food waste app ResQ Club opens a pickup point at Shopping Mall Redi on February 7, 2025

Building sustainability together

Starting February 7, 2025, you can purchase products from fruit and vegetable wholesalers through the ResQ Club app. Wholesale products are available on Tuesdays and Fridays, paid for in the ResQ Club app, and picked up the same day from the Foodnix food waste store. Redi’s excellent transport connections also enable larger wholesale batches to be picked up by those without cars.

“We are proud of Foodnix and to be part of the collaboration with ResQ Club. Fighting against food waste is a significant step in Redi’s sustainability work, complementing our long-standing sustainability initiatives such as our extensive Second Hand offerings and the free community space Vapaakaupungin Olohuone. It is important for us to promote sustainable development together with our customers, offering various options and creating a sense of community at the same time,”,

says Mika Mustasilta, Shopping Mall Redi’s manager.

“This is a big and important opening for Foodnix’s operations and will certainly play a significant role in our association’s fight against food waste. In collaboration with ResQ Club, we also believe we can respond well to our customers’ long-standing request to increase the availability of surplus food at Foodnix. We challenge everyone to participate in the surplus food campaign through ResQ Kotikulma!”,

says Chi Tran Minh, project manager at Foodnix.

“We are very excited about this collaboration, which enables the rescue of even larger amounts of food waste. Our goal is to make the ResQ Kotikulma wholesale service available to as many people as possible, within easy reach of good transport connections”,

says Sebastian Wikström, CEO of ResQ Club.

ResQ Club aims to solve 50% of the food chain’s waste

The entire food chain’s waste in Finland is estimated to be around 400 million kilograms annually (Kuluttajaliitto 2021). So far, ResQ Club has focused on reducing food waste in food services and stores, which account for about 30% of Finland’s food industry waste.

Now, expanding ResQ Club to industrial operators helps cover up to 50% of food waste, which is a significant step towards a more sustainable food chain. In the summer of 2024, ResQ Club launched the new ResQ Kotikulma service for wholesalers in the Helsinki metropolitan area. The trial started with the first fruit and vegetable wholesaler in June, and so far, nearly 12,000 kg of fruits and vegetables at risk of waste have been rescued.

More information:

Mika Mustasilta, Shopping Mall Redi manager
mika.mustasilta@redi.fi
+358 40 0638 571

Sebastian Wikström, CEO of ResQ Club
sebastian@resq-club.com
+358 50 436 8694

Chi Tran Minh, project manager at Foodnix
info@foodnix.fi
+358 40 500 7346