Name
The Dinner Exchange London
country
United Kingdom
Goal
The aim of The Dinner Exchange is to generate debate around food waste. By using ‘fit for purpose’ or ‘waste’ food, we give this food its true value back, and we hope to show not only how much we throw away, but how tasty food waste can be. We are able to upcycle food, rather than downcycle, which is what food waste is in fact. The amount of food we waste is staggering, we aim to share ways of avoiding unnecessary food waste at home, and create links with other organisations working to better the way we distribute or produce food.
For each dinner we choose a project we like and the proceeds are donated to charities concerned with the better distribution of food. Each dinner generates enough funds to continue this positive cycle:
Main Topic
Responsible and circular economy: mobilizing industry for a clean and circular economy
All Topics
Responsible and circular economy: mobilizing industry for a clean and circular economy
Sustainable food: from "farm to fork": a fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food system
Financing the transition (i.e. it facilitates and/or stimulates public and private investments needed for the transition to a climate-neutral, green, competitive and inclusive economy)
Scale
- Neighbourhood or Local community
- City and peri-urban
Actors
- Social enterprise (i.e. for-profit company, but has primary objective to achieve social and/or ecological benefits)
Main Activity
Providing knowledge transfer / advisory / education services;
Activities
- Providing knowledge transfer / advisory / education services
- Raising awareness and/or political agenda-setting
- Facilitating dialogue and networking
- (Re-)selling goods and/or facilitating good exchanges
- Showcasing and/or demonstrating practices
Source
This initiative was provided by the SGD consortium.
This initiative is self-reported and not identified by the SHARED GREEN DEAL Consortium
CONTACT
For further details please contact co-leads Dr Chris Foulds (chris.foulds@aru.ac.uk) and Dr Rosie Robison (rosie.robison@aru.ac.uk).
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 101036640. The sole responsibility for the content of this website lies with the SHARED GREEN DEAL HAS project and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the European Union.