From Waste to Taste - Circular Economy Project Turns Food Waste into Fine Dining
1. From Waste to Taste
Circular Economy Project
Johanna Kohvakka
Project Manager
25.10.2016
2. From Waste to Taste - the idea
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Only 10-15% of the food waste produced by the grocery
stores ends up to food aid
3. Food waste is a global issue
Almost 100 million tonnes eatable food is lost or wasted
in EU every year
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4. 1/3 of climatic effect of human kind is
due to food production
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One piece of bread has bigger environmental
impact than the plastic packaging over it
8. The first waste food restaurant in
Finland - Restaurant Loop
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9. Who do we employ?
People who have most difficulties finding jobs
people with foreign background, refugees and asylum
seekers
young people in risk of social exclusion
long-term unemployed people
Professional fine dining chefs who make sure of the high quality
of the food
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