In addition to the environmental impact, this circular business case also generates a social impact. In addition, we are creating a sustainable offer for a niche for which this does not yet exist: schools, residential care centres and hospitals that want to purchase fresh, healthy food with limited budgets. This also applies to processing companies in the social economy and innovative start-ups that process residual flows. Industrial kitchens and restaurants, local retailers and processing companies that convert residual flows into new products or put them on their menu can also use Get Wasted. The remuneration provides income instead of the cost of processing food into biofuel.įarmers, as well as suppliers, restaurants, the food industry, supermarkets and buyers, can use the platform to offer or buy surpluses and residual flows. By attaching a cost price to this food, we avoid the creation of a market-disrupting secondary flow. Get Wasted creates a motive for producers and suppliers of food to actively re-valorise residual flows. The economic and, at least as important, sustainable impact is enormous. This alone amounts to 233,000 tons per year. For example, in Flemish horticulture, 79% of food losses are still perfectly suitable for human consumption. Today, the supply of surpluses exceeds the capacity to recover them. This platform is a circular addition to the current regular market opportunities and the donations for food banks and poverty organizations. The food cost of food waste converts Get Wasted into a triple win for planet, profit and people. Get Wasted aims to 'unburden' the parties involved with food surpluses or residual flows in an economically viable manner. As a marketplace for these products currently doesn’t exist, most of these food products go to waste or are converted into biofuel for a fee. These waste streams could serve as raw material through repurposing or revalorizing if there was a link between producer and buyer. Additionally, the processing of certain food products creates residual flows. These volumes are often too large to be (fully) absorbed and distributed by the food banks. Landfill or biofuelįarmers and wholesalers regularly end up with rejected, but perfectly edible products due to incorrect colours or shapes.
The platform creates new outlets for food surpluses and residual flows from various actors in the food production and distribution chain.
Get Wasted is an online circular marketplace that connects the entire food value chain.
GET WASTED SOFTWARE
With a new software platform, Get Wasted, a spin-off of Growzer, we created an innovative solution for this problem while supporting the digitization of the food sector at the same time. This is expensive and results in unnecessary CO2 emissions. In production and distribution alone, € 60 billion goes lost in Europe. In our current linear system, however, an estimated 30 to 40% of food is wasted annually. EIT Food together with hospitality management platform Growzer, created Get Wasted: a two-sided online marketplace that brings together local suppliers and buyers of food that would otherwise go to waste. As a local marketplace, it facilitates supply and demand, helps a circular economy and supports the local ecosystem.Ī circular food system is a sustainable system in which raw materials are used as efficiently as possible. From a circular perspective, the waste of one player is the raw material for another.
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