Outline: Business opportunities

Here we outline how the reduction of food waste can be seen as a business opportunity.

After analysing the causes and effects of food waste both locally and globally, as well as after analysing some of the solutions, you could think about how one can develop a business out of reducing food waste.

First, think about restaurants that offer the “all you can eat” service. People are sometimes tricked by their own imagination and fill their plates excessively, thinking that they can eat everything. However, much of the food remains uneaten and, implicitly, is to be thrown away. In order to gain more money and avoid food waste, restaurants could make the plates smaller or introduce a service that still allows you to eat “all you can”, but up to a certain weight. This way, as plates are smaller and the food allowed does not surpass a certain weight, food waste will be reduced and, implicitly, res...