The best free anti-waste apps for Android and iPhone

On average, a French person throws away between 20 and 30 kg of food waste each year, including 7 kg of unopened products. Waste is also about goods and energy resources that we tend to over-consume. But the mess is not an end in itself, and it is easily possible to fight against it without drastically changing your lifestyle. To help you better manage your consumption, Telecharger.com has selected the best free anti-waste applications for Android and iPhone.

Fight against food waste

While the large-scale distribution sector is organizing itself at its own level to fight against waste – a ban on bleaching unsold items that have not expired and the obligation to donate them to charities since 2016 – consumers are learning to better manage their food stocks. at home. Knowing exactly what the fridge and cupboards are stocked with makes it easier to estimate exactly what you really need.

À Consommer draws up an inventory of your provisions, taking into account the expiration dates (DLC) specific to each product. When a food expires, you receive push alerts indicating it’s time to eat it. The little extra that sets the app apart from the competition? Its full management of the food started.

• Download Consume for Android (Free)

To support you on a daily basis, Save Eat and KitchenPal push the concept even further and help you manage your food expenses.

Assistance that translates into the integration of intelligent features such as the development of shopping lists from the ingredients used in the composition of your favorite recipes and the current state of your reserves. The goal is to regulate your consumption and avoid throwing away the excess in the days that follow.

• Download Save Eat for Android (Free)
• Download Save Eat for iPhone (Free)
• Download KitchenPal for Android (Free)
• Download KitchenPal for iPhone (Free)

Specialist in leftovers and open products, Frigo Magic concocts recipes on the fly for those who lack ideas or dare improbable mixtures. With an important food database, the application lets you inform you of the foods to eat urgently and generates varied menus. Customizable parameters adjust the suggestions according to the maximum cooking time tolerated or the type of cuisine enjoyed.

• Download Frigo Magic for Android (Free)
• Download Frigo Magic for iPhone (Free)

Distribution, also responsible for food waste, is trying to reduce its unsold stock by applying reductions on products destined for the trash. Too Good To Go centralizes discounts from partner merchants to keep you informed in real time of good deals around.

The foods concerned are often fresh and to be consumed quickly. Orders are placed from the app and collected on site, when the stores close. The contents of the basket vary daily, consisting only of the excess stock remaining at the end of the day.

• Download Too Good To Go for Android (Free)
• Download Too Good To Go for iPhone (Free)

For the engaged aspect, we turn to Linkee. In agreement with various brands, the solidarity platform organizes the recovery of unsold consumables for the benefit of the most disadvantaged. As a user of the application, you offer your services to occasionally or regularly collect surplus food parcels to be delivered to partner associations such as Restos du Cœur, Emmaüs or Secours Populaire.

• Download Linkee for Android (Free)
• Download Linkee for iPhone (Free)

Recover and recycle

Rather than getting rid of all the items that you no longer need to buy more, why not transform them and give them a second use? The less creative find millions of ideas on Pinterest and DIY Ideas.

The many categories referenced offer a whole bunch of solutions to recover and recycle what you thought was old-fashioned or definitely ruined. You save your finds in your personal space on DIY Ideas and organize your pins into boards on Pinterest.

• Download Pinterest for Android (Free)
• Download Pinterest for iPhone (Free)
• Download DIY Ideas for Android (Free)

With wikiHow, you have access to thousands of tutorials answering questions starting with “How to”. Home-made manual, the app claims its completeness in areas as varied as cooking, computers, grandmother’s remedies, survival in hostile environments and DIY. To take full advantage of the tool, you should already have in mind an idea of ​​how you want to recycle or transform an object.

• Download wikiHow for Android (Free)
• Download wikiHow for iPhone (Free)

With no idea and no practice, turn to DIY Ideas at Home instead. The app is full of creative transformations explained step by step. Manual work is suddenly second nature to the less resourceful who develop unsuspected artisanal talents. Searching by categories and tags makes it easier to sort through the vast amount of information provided, as does the possibility of saving the most interesting articles as favorites.

• Download DIY Ideas at Home for Android (Free)
• Download DIY Home Ideas for iPhone (Free)

We fell in love with the Bidouilles Ikea application, when the Swedish brand attracted more than 930 million visitors worldwide in the 2016-2017 financial year. Inexpensive, uncluttered and functional, kit furniture primarily attracts the young habitat market, which designs the replaceable nature of furniture according to current trends.

This is where Bidouilles Ikea comes in, the French-speaking counterpart of the IKEA Hackers movement. Thanks to this collaborative application, we discover a thousand and one ways to divert IKEA products from their primary function and to recycle them when they are out of fashion. Four mirrors turn into an indoor glass roof, a cutlery drainer is improvised as a mini-barbecue, a cabinet acts as a synth workstation.

• Download Ikea Bidouilles for Android (Free)

Give objects a second life

Too many books, clothes, games, furniture? A classified ad on Leboncoin and you will surely find a buyer. Categorize the item you want to part with, add a quick description, a few photos, set a price and wait to be contacted by potential buyers via the in-app messaging.

• Download Leboncoin for Android (Free)
• Download Leboncoin for iPhone (Free)

If you’re looking to get rid of items that you don’t think you can get out of, consider giving them away rather than throwing them away. GEEV and Bon ridas put you in touch with a community of donors and adopters.

Giving an object takes barely a few seconds: a photo, a short description, a meeting place, and voila. Users interested in your donation contact you through the integrated messaging module.

• Download GEEV for Android (Free)
• Download GEEV for iPhone (Free)
• Download Good Riddance for Android (Free)

Smart Cycle places more emphasis on bulky items left on the street. It is not uncommon to find objects in good condition on the corner of a sidewalk. In a disinterested approach, the walkers photograph the abandoned furniture, accessories, household appliances to report them to the community. Using precise geolocation, anyone can get to the scene without making an appointment or contacting the person behind the post to retrieve the desired item. First come, first served !

• Download Smart Cycle for Android (Free)
• Download Smart Cycle for iPhone (Free)

Take good habits

The visible part of the iceberg, food and object waste incorporates a larger process that you can fight by changing certain habits.

To help you meet this challenge, far from being insurmountable, 90 days is an ecological transition assistant, offering dozens of missions to be carried out day after day. It is about making small changes in your daily life to limit the production of CO2, overconsumption of energy and unnecessary expenses.

The challenges launched by 90 days require you to get involved more or less conscientiously without ever imposing excessive efforts. Place a full bottle in the toilet tank to save 1.5L of drinking water, keep a reusable shopping bag handy, change electricity supplier to switch to renewable energies, stick a STOP-PUB sticker on its letterbox, so many small actions that allow you to fight in the short and long term against the waste of energy and resources.

• Download 90 days for Android (Free)
• Download 90 days for iPhone (Free)

While 90 days focuses on one challenge at a time, We Act for Good (WAG) leaves its community free to manage its ecological transition. The application developed by WWF France takes on the role of consumer coach and helps everyone to become eco-responsible. We learn to eat better, waste less, free ourselves from industrial lobbies and harmful chemicals. There is also an agenda listing the green events organized in the area.

• Download We Act for Good for Android (Free)
• Download We Act for Good for iPhone (Free)