Our impact on
food waste in Canada
Every Surprise Bag you collect is good food rescued from waste. We're just getting started, and we'll only report verified numbers from real orders.
Now
Foundation
No inflated user counts or invented rescue totals. Just a product built the right way.
First mission
Rescue food
Help local food businesses turn surplus into affordable Surprise Bags.
First partners
Partner-ready
Built for our first restaurants, cafés, bakeries and grocery stores.
First proof
Track honestly
Impact figures will come only from real, completed orders.
Why It Matters
Food loss and waste drive 8–10% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
Wasted food also wastes the water, land, energy and labour used to produce it.
Bestby Bites exists to make action easy. No guilt trips and no vanity counters, just a simple way for anyone to rescue good food every day.
Nearly 60%
Of the food produced in Canada is lost or wasted — 35.5 million tonnes a year
Second Harvest & VCMI, The Avoidable Crisis of Food Waste (2019)
11.2M tonnes
Of that is avoidable and could be rescued, worth $49.46 billion
Second Harvest & VCMI, The Avoidable Crisis of Food Waste (2019)
$1,300+
Is what the average Canadian household loses on wasted food each year
Love Food Hate Waste Canada
What we're building
Built for real, measurable impact
01
Merchant onboarding
A fast, simple flow for restaurants, cafés, bakeries and grocery stores to list surplus.
02
Smooth pickups
Clear pickup windows, instant order details and a handover that just works from day one.
03
City-by-city growth
Launch city by city, learn from real supply and demand, then scale with density.
Sustainable Development
Goals
Bestby Bites contributes to four of the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals, the shared global blueprint for a better future by 2030.
Goal
2
Zero Hunger
Making good, nutritious food affordable for more people.
Affordable food
Goal
11
Sustainable Cities
Helping cities cut waste at the source, one restaurant at a time.
Local first
Goal
12
Responsible Consumption
Connecting surplus food with the people who want it most.
Less waste
Goal
13
Climate Action
Cutting greenhouse gas emissions by keeping edible food out of landfill.
Every bag counts
The bigger picture
Adopted by every UN member state, the 17 SDGs aim to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity by 2030.
Bestby Bites is not affiliated with or endorsed by the United Nations.