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Jack Convery pops into a London branch of Italian eatery Coco di Mama to grab a cut-price lunch ordered on his smartphone’s food

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问题     Jack Convery pops into a London branch of Italian eatery Coco di Mama to grab a cut-price lunch ordered on his smartphone’s food-sharing app Karma. The 27-year-old Amazon employee—with an eye for a bargain and for helping the environment—uses a mobile phone app that sells surplus food from hundreds of UK restaurants at discounted prices. " Anything I can do to help the environment and look after the budget as well is beneficial, so yeah, it’s a win-win," Convery tells AFP after collecting his bag from the counter near Old Street Tube station.
    【T1】Decomposing food waste is a key source of greenhouse gases—and a staggering one third of all food is thrown away, according to industry estimates. Amid growing public outcry over the climate emergency, consumers are switching on to the environmental danger of carbon dioxide and methane emissions.
    【T2】Britain’s cafes and restaurants are also embracing apps that generate some revenue from rescued food that would be destined for landfill. However, some restaurants happily give unsold food to homeless charities on a daily basis.
    【T3】Swedish start-up Karma was founded in Stockholm in 2016 and its app now helps serve 1 million users in Britain, France and home market Sweden. In the UK alone, it offers 2,000 outlets. Rival app Too Good To Go also offers cut-price meals with a similar approach. Britain-based Olio, meanwhile, enables its 1.7 million customers worldwide to give their own unused food items free to other users, via collection from their homes.
    Joao Campari, food expert at environmental campaigners WWF International, argues that apps are an "important" way to cut waste. "With food loss and waste creating at least eight percent of all emissions, it’s vital that as many people as possible reduce their personal food waste," Campari tells AFP. "To do this, we need tools that are easy to use, and also help raise awareness of the scale of the problem. "
    Wastage occurs throughout the food supply chain; on farms, during transport and in retail stores. " In truth, the best way to cut emissions from food loss and waste is to prevent food being lost on the farm and in the supply chain before it reaches end—consumers," adds Campari.
    【T4】Yet in developed nations, most food waste occurs in restaurants and private homes—at a time when an estimated 820 million people in the world do not have enough to eat, according to the World Health Organization.
    【T5】While these apps are clearly benefitting consumers and food retailers, experts say they do not address the core problem. "These are good for raising awareness but they’re not in themselves solutions, because there’s still food surplus or food waste being produced," mulls professor Martin Caraher at City University London’s Centre for Food Policy. "With 10 billion meals a year still ending up in the bin, the UK has not closed the door on the food waste problem. "
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答案显然消费者和食品零售商都从这些应用程序中受益了，但专家表示，这些应用程序并没有从根本上解决问题。
解析 本句为复合句。其主干句为experts say they do not address the core problem。While引导的为让步状语从句。本句在翻译时要注意address the core problem，可以根据汉语习惯译为“从根本上解决问题”。
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