How circular design can help end food waste
On Food Waste Action Week, Sarah Benton, Senior Writer at The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, explores the Big Food Redesign Challenge and explains how circular design can transform the battle against food waste.
Count to 10. In that time, 10 truckloads of food have been wasted globally. And that dirty, smelly procession of trucks continues every second of every day.
The costs to nature and society are huge. This wasteful global food system of ours is the biggest driver of biodiversity loss and is responsible for a third of greenhouse gas emissions. We also waste almost one-third of the food we produce, while 10% of the planet’s population goes hungry.
It doesn’t have to be this way. The food industry can use circular design to create products that help nature thrive and address the interconnected challenges of biodiversity loss, climate change, pollution and waste.
