On June 2, Vanessa Butani, VP Group Sustainability of Electrolux joined David Coleman, Chairman of Defugo Technologies, and Richard Swannell, International Director of WRAP, for a panel discussion on how we can reduce food waste through technology and behavioral change during the Stockholm+50 Climate Hub. Food waste is a significant source of global greenhouse gas emissions. According to Zero Waste Scotland, each kg of food waste that we send to landfill is equivalent in climate impact to sending 25,000 50 cl PET bottles to landfill. Considering that households globally throw away 75 kg of food per person every year, that equates to annually throwing away 1,875,000 50 cl PET bottles in terms of climate impact, if the food waste goes to landfill. Food waste is a critical climate issue to tackle, and it is an issue that we can solve now by changing our behavior. Electrolux has a clear role in this: Preventing food from being wasted in the first place. 
The Food waste panel on the Stockholm+50 Climate Hub with Richard Swanell (WRAP, on screen), Vanessa Butani (Electrolux, left), David Coleman (Defugo, middle) and Nick Nuttall (We Don’t Have Time, right). Photo by We Don’t Have Time.
“Some of our technologies enable you to keep food in your fridge for longer and help you to understand what you can do with it,” says Vanessa Butani, VP Group Sustainability at Electrolux. "As a leading global appliance company, we provide technology that can make food edible for longer, but it doesn’t stop there – ending food waste is an educational and behavioral task. We want to help people to reduce food waste by giving them the tools to do so. As an example, our My AEG Kitchen app provides recipes with ingredients that would otherwise be wasted," says Vanessa.
“This educational task goes beyond food waste, it’s also about what we cook in the first place. A key challenge in changing food habits is that it needs to be easy, fun and with delicious results. Through the Electrolux Food Foundation, founded in 2016, we educate young people, consumers and future chefs to cook and eat more healthily and sustainably.”
Watch Vanessa discuss how we can work together to reduce food waste with Richard Swanell of WRAP, David Coleman of Defugo Technologies, and Nick Nuttall of We Don’t Have Time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbXYEBzplqo&t=3673s
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Who would have thought food waste would be among these great contributors?
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Great read. The numbers are high and every hand must be on deck to reduce the numbers for the health of our planet
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Love the effort,very educative!
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You learn new things every day and I used to look at a banana as the part you eat, but now I know better, much better.
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Food waste is a massive issue, it's good to see different stakeholders trying to solve it!
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It's great to see that food waste can be combated by so many sectors! Collaboration is the key