Imagine a landscape around you. It has trees, crops, and livestock, all producing diverse, delicious foods, with nothing wasted. Soils, and life within them, are thriving. Species of bees and birds, rarely seen for years before, are now plentiful.
You are imagining a landscape created by circular economy principles, and this is a future that food industry pioneers can have a key role in facilitating. Over the last two years, through the Big Food Redesign Challenge, 57 organisations have successfully created 141 products that are better for business and nature. The business case is also now clear.
Explore how adopting circular economy principles can drive resilience, unlock new value, and transform our food system. We've curated five helpful pieces of content to help support you on your journey:
- Learn: A guide to using circular design for food to build business resilience. Learn where to get started when it comes to actioning circular design for food in your business.
- Video series: Redesigning Food: Behind the scenes. Learn from businesses that have navigated the complexities of designing food for nature to thrive, pushed the boundaries of food design, and turned obstacles into opportunities for growth and innovation.
- Podcast: How are small start-ups, SMEs and large corporations working together to change the food system? In this episode, hear from Chloe Stewart, founder of Challenge participant Nibs etc, alongside Katie Carson, Director of Corporate Affairs for Food and Climate Policy at Tetra Pak to learn more about the importance of collaboration in scaling food products that allow nature to thrive.
- Film: The Story of the Big Food Redesign Challenge. Transitioning to a circular economy for food means redesigning a system that allows nature to thrive. Learn from those who have successfully created products designed to regenerate nature.
- Article: Survivor sesame, champion chickpeas. Discover how innovative companies are already implementing circular design for food and what they have learnt so far.
- An appetite to transform traditionally linear processes enabled product development, sustainability, procurement, and packaging teams to collaborate effectively.
- Engaging teams on circular design for food and building their knowledge around ingredient production methods and alternative ingredient options was highlighted as critical to implementation.
- Empowering procurement teams to invest in circular supply chain relationships — enabling them to build trust, transparency, and shared value — enabled them to go beyond ‘better sourcing’ to build long-term engagement.
Passionate foodie and proud co-owner of Rescued Limited. Rescued exists to make great food to prevent food waste. We're creating delicious upcycled food, ingredients, collaborations and circular economy actions. Join us!
5moOne of 57. It was a good number for Heinz!! Imagine if we all collaborated to make products and ingredients together. Participating in this challenge has been a business defining opportunity for Rescued Limited. We will be eternally thankful to everyone we connected with for the education, inspiration, motivation and endless opportunities the challenge delivered.