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FoodPort Food waste reduction initiativeMark Mitchell SuperCoolSteven Finn ResponsEcology/UPenn

1Introducing

A new way of looking at the food wastage problem, based on the airport formula for mass handling and despatch. In a FoodPort, food is people, and, like people, it can go safely to a new destination.

2A means of reducing food waste by making food normally marked as waste, re-usable or useful in some form.Based on the premise that communities, including businesses, farms and restaurants, waste food because there is nowhere to take it in order to save it.FoodPort is a destination where food at risk or on the brink of wastage can be checked, sorted and dispatched to a new destination that consumes the food or re-uses it in some way for overall community and environmental benefit.FoodPort would operate in much the same way as airports and hospitals which succeed at dealing with very complex issues every day due to the value placed on their cargo passengers travelling by air and human lives. This same value would be placed on food, which forms the fundamental basis for FoodPort. Introduction

3Airports and how they happened

Pioneer aviators like the Wright Brothers had nowhere to land other than beaches and paddocks

Airports had to develop processesEarly flying was frustrating

Long queues were commonplace

People only flew if they had to

Airlines and airports struggled to deal with the complexities of passengers, luggage, safety and timetables in a single transaction

WHY? Because early airports didnt grasp the value of passengers

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1Food too often has nowhere to go

Food today is no different than the passengers of yesterday

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6Food has nowhere to go but WHY?

Limited food relief agenciesLimited cooling/freezer spaceLimited staff/capacity/hoursLimited means of cold transportLack of processing abilityLiability concernsCost barriers (transportation and processing)Safety concernsDiscarding food is too easy it is built into operational decisions

Somewhere for excess food to go

7Food becomes the valuable cargo. FoodPort is a place to process food and send it to an appropriate destination.

FoodPort an airport for food

The food arrivals hall

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1The food arrivals board

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1Distribution and departures

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Dockets issued for all foods

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1Sophisticated food processing network

13FoodPort would turn the task of accepting and processing surplus food in large volume into a measurable and repeatable process.

1Best practice food transports

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1Chilled storage

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1Food processing capabilities

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1Scaled to meet community needs

17The scale and size of FoodPorts would vary to meet market and geographical demands. Smaller versions would service less populated regions where food waste opportunities are fewer. Larger versions would be located in highly populated areas, even close to city centres, or in large farming areas where food waste is a constant dilemma for growers.

World hotspots targeted

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Public/private partnerships

19The social and environmental benefits of reducing food wastage in any form are sufficient for any government to consider involvement FoodPort provides an objective means for a government to take action by building designated infrastructure that helps solve a growing problem, delivers environmental outcomes and has the potential to provide employment for a growing workforce and industry wanting to focus on food safety and development.

The initial development of FoodPort will require a collaboration between government and industry that may include involvement of syndicates from non-government organisations and charities.

Global collaboration

20Kick-starting FoodPort will require far greater involvement and funding than one person or organisation could provide

It may demand a completely collaborative approach from competing interests, domestically and globally, that may not have worked together previously

United Nations backing would be essential to foster the development of pilots in different parts of the world.

In his famous paper outlining 20 urgent global problems, Jean Francois Rischard, Vice President of the World Bank (1998 2005), argued that not enough was being done about planetary problems. In his list of problems, food and starvation figured prominently. FoodPort falls squarely within his call for a new level of global collaboration and intelligent alliances.

Global education

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Behavioural change is urgently needed to value food as a means to reduce wastage and starvationFoodPort is a place to go a place to land the problem and turn it into a benefit. It converts food waste into a bankable currency because the means to process it would be constant and predictable.

Where to from here

22For FoodPort to work, its design and ambience must foster an immediate feeling of confidence and efficiency, just like an airport. It will not be a place to dump food, it will be place where meaningful decisions are made and a process put in place to re-direct extremely valuable food cargo to worthy destinations.

Where to from here

23Feasibility studiesDetermine food currenciesMoneyCarbon creditsCommmunity benefitsWho are the operatorsExtent of government participationIdentify the many ownersDetermine infrastructure needsDesign for easy replicationProspects for food innovation dehydration of foodFinancing initiatives a small charge on each FoodPort transaction to help sustain operationsLocation and planning for a pilot facility to develop necessary proof of concept

Thank you

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