Food Waste

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Content – interest?

• About food waste• Importance• Sources• What to do with food waste?• The opportunity• Food waste entrepreneurs• Challenges

About food waste

• Definition: Edible food that goes to waste• 33% of all food goes to waste

Importance

• Social perspective– Global food prices– Food poverty: global and local (opportunity)

• Environmental perspective– Water, labour, land, energy– Example hamburger (from Belgian cows)

• Feed: soy (cut forest, pesticides, transport)• Human labour• Antibiotics• transportation

Sources of food waste

• Farmers– Over production– Cosmetic standards

Sources of food waste

• Food processors and producers– E.g. sandwiches

• Wholesale market• Supermarkets and distribution (e.g. open air

markets)• Catering• Consumers

How to handle food waste?

• Triangle of food waste use: reduce• [picture]

An opportunity

• Raising awareness and buzz• EU priority: Europe wants to halve food waste

by 2020• Customer awareness forces companies– Business case: Intermarché– Good publicity: Prêt à manger– Bad publicity: when?

Food Waste Entrepreneurs

• Social business• Prevent food from begin wasted • Goal: use it for human consumption• Raise awareness• USP: food waste• Business: use revenues as engine to sustain

their business

Food Waste Entrepreneurs

Sectors• Preventing• Processing/conserving• Restaurants • Connectors

Kromkommer

• Focus: ugly/wonky vegetables and fruits• Community based– Crowdfunding– crowdsourcing

• Product: soup• Awareness raising– Be a food waste hero

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The Real Junk Food Project

• Restaurant and food bank• Running 100% on volunteers• 100% food waste• Running on free contributions• Very idealistic• picture

Phenix

• Connect supermarkets (and other parties offering surplus) with associations who are in need of surplus

• Work actively with big companies• Innovating business model

– 60% tax rebates– Cost of disposal

• No logistics• Big scale. • B2B• picture

Partage ton frigo

• App to share food surplus• communal fridges where people can leave

food• offers a concrete way to consumers to

decrease their food waste and consume differently

• Business model: cleaning and selling fridges• picture

Winnow Solutions

• Consultancy to reduce food waste in catering• Provide a smart meter – Information on how food is watsed

• 30-70% reductions• Measures– operations– Smaller portions, free upgrade– Doggy bag– Obligatory donation when people leave food

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Instock

• Restaurant serving meals of food waste• Cooperation with biggest supermarket chain

in the Netherlands– Free food– money

• Changing supply chain

Challenges

Regulation?

Challenge Times cited

Transport/logistics 4Sourcing/supply 4Scaling and development 4

HR (volunteers/staff) 3Funding/finance 3Finding a space 3Team 2Production 2Marketing/sales 2Communication 2Distribution (to retail) 1Business model 1Benchmarking 1