The Felix Project and FareShare’s four approaches to food recovery
Redirect In the simplest cases, food items such as unpacked fresh fruit are collected (usually in bulk bags) and moved to The Felix Project and FareShare depots and labelled to ensure traceability.
Relabel Some food items need labelling to ensure compliance and traceability. They could have the wrong (or no) label for many reasons – the weight or ingredients list could be incorrect, they may have come from a ready meal so were never meant to be sold to the public, or they could have been produced for a country with different labelling rules.
Repack If food was never intended for sale so is not packaged or a brand does not want imperfect items out in the public, surplus can be repacked into a format The Felix Project and FareShare can use.
Repurpose This method combines surplus ingredients into new food items altogether. This can be achieved within charities’ kitchens if they receive regular food from the same suppliers, for example, pastry offcuts from one manufacturer and chicken from another could be made into a pie. Suppliers could also repurpose on their own site with their own ingredients, such as making a soup out of vegetable offcuts.
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