Waste Reduction Week Canada and SPUD’s Free Workshop

As an official partner of Waste Reduction Week Canada, SPUD is hosting a free workshop “Low waste is the New No Waste”, full of waste fighting ideas (like “clean the fridge” soup), participating in a new, BC born, documentary on food waste heroes while highlighting local, waste fighting vendors all week long. REGISTER HERE

If you want to learn even more about battling food waste, you’ll also want to check out the Food Synergy Movie, a documentary crowdfunded and produced in BC, telling stories of people and organizations that are food waste superheroes. An epic story from farm to plate of how the whole food chain cycle is inextricably connected and how the problems faced from farm to home can be alleviated with sound solutions: trailer here. SPUD and local vendor Susgrainable are both part of this documentary.

Waste Fighting practices –at SPUD every week is waste reduction week

• SPUD’s Food waste goes to farmers, creates compost to make more food= circular economy
• Imperfect produce – for those who like fighting waste and love imperfection
• Cardboard Shredder – piloting a new innovative way to repurpose cardboard
• Carpooling your groceries – a win for the planet and wasteful, harmful emissions
• Takeback program – reuse, reduce and recycling our own private label
• Reusable bins and products – saving plastic bags with each delivery

Top Waste Fighting Brands at SPUD.ca : Full List Here

 Litas Mexican Foods – Officially plastic negative, by donating a percentage of every product purchase to plastic reduction efforts, Lita’s Mexican Foods is enabling the removal of over 400 lbs of low-value plastic waste otherwise landfilled, burned, or flushed into the oceans.

Goodly Foods – Making incredibly great-tasting, wholesome food using surplus produce that would have otherwise gone to waste. Try their soups!

Susgrainable – Rescued grains and upcycled flour. Turning BC beer “waste” into delectable baked goods in an effort to help combat food waste, finding a use for the brewer’s spent grain or “waste” that is left behind after making beer.

Bee Kind – hand painted beeswax food wraps produced in Vancouver, BC. Sustainable, reusable, and 100% home compostable food wrap.

Why Waste Matters

• 58% of food is wasted in Canada
• 1 in 9 Vancouverite is food insecure
• If waste were a country, we would be #3
• Ending food waste is the #1 solution to helping the environment
• The city of Vancouver has committed to become zero waste by 2040 and a leader in food loss prevention