Dumpsters begone! App matches diners with leftovers to broke, hungry

I was one of them

IN the US the poor do have smart or at least cell phones with internet services. I was one of them - I lived in a flop house and was a credit card/student loan slave - everyone in the building had one - mine cost 15 cents a month if I made just one minute call every month; non usage would dock me $4.20, so I made sure and made at least one 1 minute 15 cent call a month.

Now everyone is getting those "Obama" phones - so yeah, the poor have cell phone\internet in the US. Even before this, we had reduced phone service for a small fee; - besides LIbraries are a favorite hang out for the homeless, and they can look at the same information over the internet there. This is not even a challenge really.

"their concern is environmental"

Yeah, a bunch of people cruising around in their cars to go leftover-hopping is going to be real environmental.

And I don't think the poor are going to benefit all that much from this thing either, because they are generally surrounded by other poor people, not people sufficiently well off to have a full fridge and not enough appetite to finish their meal.

I cannot fault the idea in itself, but in truth I find it the perfect demonstration of pie-in-sky, hippy thinking. It's a rather sad thing that our society has to resort to encouraging poor people to eat other people's leftovers, rather than finding ways of making them not poor any more.

On top of that, I'm pretty sure that there will be people who will spit in their leftovers just out of spite.

Alternatively...

... American restaurants could just stop serving such ridiculously oversized portions.