date:May 22, 2012
Described by Scottish inventor Peter Higgins as a game changer in the fight against post consumer food waste, the chemical-based UWI (pronounced you whee) label monitors partially-used jars and tubs lurking in the fridge.
A simple, visual tracker, calibrated to the products life cycle, glows from green to red, warning that it has reached its use within date and should be dumped. It could help reduce the 20% of food waste that the government-funded Waste Resources Action Plan estimated is linked