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Surplus type
Approach
4. Giveaway
5. Changeover
When farmers have produced more than can be sold, Felix helps with harvesting produce that would otherwise go to waste. Redirect If manufacturers regularly create excess volumes of food, Felix can redirect those items. Premium, pre-prepared meals brand known for their delicious, handmade dishes, Charlie Bigham’s , provides a regular expected supply of sauce to Felix. This is used to create rice and pasta dishes by charities. Repack If a supplier creates more sauce than is required, it can be bagged up for Felix to collect. Felix used a batch of McDonald’s fries to create a potato soup. Repurpose Excess can be turned into a repurposed dish on site or in collaboration with other partners.
Waitrose worked with their supplier Daybreak as when changeovers between pasta shapes takes place, some broken pasta is produced. This is repacked into surplus packaging and sent to Felix. Repack Items can be produced during flushing, cleaning and recalibrating which are still edible.
6. Planning
On one line, Two Sisters Food Group sends millions of pounds worth of food to Felix every year. When breaded chicken fails quality check for visual issues, such as uneven coating, it is re-run through the packing line into plastic boxes, chilled on site and collected three times a week by volunteers. Stickers are added making it clear that these items are for Felix and not for resale. Leaders are committed to investing resources into getting edible but unsaleable food to people in need. Repack If there has been overproduction, wrong product runs or idle production capacity, items can be repacked and moved to charities.
“There is so much that we do to help. We’re not asking anyone to set up new packing stations on their site. We have volunteers and a processing line at Oakland International that can prepare products to go to charities. In the case of Two Sisters’ breaded chicken, the food that fails QC is set to one side. Then when there is capacity, it is run back down the line for repacking. It’s such an easy but innovative way to use existing resources to do good.” Joshua Wheeler Senior Programme Manager – Innovation and Development, Felix “
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