The waste equation report

Collaborating for a thriving industry

Transformation doesn’t just sit on the shoulders of manufacturers. Real momentum to reduce food insecurity requires a united, aligned industry.

ƒ Space – Some factories allow The Felix Project and FareShare to use spare factory capacity, for instance when seasonality means lines are inactive. Others provide freezer space storage which helps to address peaks and troughs of supply due to seasonality. ƒ Retired assets – Spare packaging and redundant equipment are incredibly useful and save The Felix Project and FareShare one-off costs. ƒ Expertise – You are the experts of the industry. Suppliers might not have any surplus products, but they may have an amazing marketing department that could help The Felix Project and FareShare for a few hours a month. Legal expertise, technical, technology and IT advice are also valuable resources. ƒ Collaboration – We can all share best practice with other similar organisations, including competitors, through Alliance Food Sourcing.

Everyone across the end-to-end of the food chain – from farms to factories to packaging and logistics – all of us have our part to play in finding ways to save money, reinvest and work together in the most cost efficient ways. Every organisation has unique resources to offer, even those producing no waste can identify surplus factory space, capacity, people and buying power to source food charities need. Resources required to fight food insecurity include: ƒ Buying power – Procurement can use their influence to procure ingredients and raw materials at a good cost. ƒ Logistics – There may be opportunities to help move items in and around the network when transportation is empty such as returning to the depot.

Industry example The Felix Project and FareShare is working with food group Princes and supermarket Waitrose , aiming to create the best value tin of baked beans in the country. Princes is using its economies of scale to procure the best cost ingredients and packaging and is reviewing how to use seasonal fluctuations in factory capacity to manufacture the beans, while Waitrose is providing funding for the project.

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