Green is the new normal

Every afternoon, an outfitted motorbike arrives at the kitchen backdoor of W Bali – Seminyak. It has one mission: to pick up the remains of the day’s tasty food from the resort’s breakfast buffet. After carefully stacking a few large containers inside the cooler box, the driver immediately heads back to the Scholars of Sustenance (SOS) headquarters in Kuta. There, Yuni Derlean, the foundation’s food hygienist checks, weighs and separates the food. As more drivers arrive, the counters are quickly filled with loaded containers of surplus food, including muffins and fried noodles. They are donated by hotels, food suppliers, catering companies, beach clubs, and a bakery who have pledged to assist SOS in their food rescue efforts.

First founded by Bo Holmgreen in Bangkok because he noticed that a lot of good food goes to waste in the hospitality industry, SOS () now operates in Thailand and Indonesia.