Sustainability

At the start of 2018, China acted on its import ban on 24 types of recyclable materials, including recycled plastics, as part of an environmental reform movement designed to deal with its own growing waste problems. After 25 years of importing 106 million metric tons (or 45% of all plastic waste)China refused to buy any

Our panelists for the night include Julian Lechner (Founder of Kaffeeform), Christophe Maire (Founder of Atlantic Labs), Nadja Flohr-Spence (Co-Founder of Sustainable Food Academy) and Moritz Waldstein (Co-Founder of Mitte). It was an insightful and engaging session with great participation from the audience – men and women who range between the creative to the scientific,

It’s a new food world. The modern consumer demand for more sustainable food is evident: In a 2017 proprietary quantitative study conducted by Barkley, new products with sustainability and traceability claims exceeded all other new product platform territories including portion control, taste or flavor, easy preparation and functional nutrition. As a result, food manufacturers made

We had the opportunity to sit down with three of our panelists: Sebastian (Founder of share),Moritz (Co-founder of Mitte), and Julian (Founder of Kaffeeform), for a short chat before Food for Thought takes place on 17 October 2018. They had some interesting insights to share – insights on the sustainable food & beverage (F&B) industry

Besides acknowledging the effect it has on our health, it is also paramount to examine how food production and consumption is affecting our society, environment, and resources. The enormous effort to satisfy big appetites across the globe creates significant environmental impacts, from pumping millions of tons of greenhouse gases into the air and fertilizers leaching

Much of the plastic deposited in recycling bins does not get recycled. Currently, more than 300 million tons of new plastic is produced annually and less than 10% of it recycled. A whopping 91% of plastic is not recycled Mass production of plastics, which began just six decades ago, has accelerated to creating 8.3 billion

Being part of a bigger community allows for people with similar values to come together through cohesive and more localized actions. This micro-to-macro idea is an extension of the “Think globally, act locally” concept, urging individuals to consider the health of the entire planet and to take action in their own regions and cities. In

From poisoning and injuring marine life to disrupting human hormones, from littering our beaches and landscapes to clogging our waste streams and landfills, the exponential growth of plastics is now threatening the survival of our planet. In response, Earth Day 2018, happening on 22 April, is aimed at changing human attitude and behavior, and catalyzing