SEASON 1
We waste a third of our food. What can businesses do about it?
With our population set to reach over 9 billion by 2040, how can businesses feed people not at the cost of our planet?
With our population set to reach over 9 billion by 2040, how can businesses feed people not at the cost of our planet?
Businesses who want to redistribute or repurpose food otherwise headed for waste.
New applications and technologies can pave the way for circular economy solutions to food waste.
Do not be just another cog in a broken system. There is an opportunity to be part of the solution, while turning a profit.
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At the simplest level, food waste comes at a big cost: not only financially, but also environmentally and socially. To varying degrees, we are all part of this mind bogglingly inefficient global food system.
We explore the history of food waste and its current social, economic and environmental impacts, and examine approaches businesses can take to help address the problem: redistribution, repurposing, and using technological innovations for more challenging examples of food waste.
This is part two of our series on the problem of food waste: we're wasting a third of our food, so what can businesses do about it? In this episode, we look at another tried and true approach for addressing the problem - repurposing - with a case study about condiments company Rubies in the Rubble.
This is part two...
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Find out where to focus your efforts towards getting out of this Pickle.
Assess the amount of food that you have in surplus and partner up with local organisations.
Look at opportunities to develop new product lines using food that may otherwise go to waste, or partner up to find a new market.
Find new technological applications or existing initiatives to create value from what has previously had limited or no commercial value.
Find out where to focus your efforts towards getting out of this Pickle.
Read the report, dive into our database of findings, or listen to a podcast to hear more from the experts on this topic.
Get support and challenge in the process of creating and executing on your impact agenda.
Engage your wider team on this topic through a workshop with one of our leaders, with case studies, tools and actions to share.
To bring you this Pickle topic we went deep into the research across sectors, topics, regions and more. Some top picks from our research. Find all the stats, case studies and sources we use.
"The Food Loss and Waste database is the largest online collection of data on both food loss and food waste and causes reported in scientific journals, academic publications, grey literature, countries among others."
"Reducing emissions from food production will be one of our greatest challenges in the coming decades. Unlike many aspects of energy production where viable opportunities for upscaling low-carbon energy—renewable or nuclear energy—are available, the ways in which we can decarbonize agriculture are less clear."
"This book includes perspectives and disciplines ranging from agriculture, food science, industrial ecology, history, economics, consumer behaviour, geography, theology, planning, sociology, and environmental policy among others."
