24 October HOW TO ESTABLISH A SUSTAINABLE AND RESPONSIBLE FOOD AT WORK?
Sustainable food is to prioritize food no risk to health, which preserves the environment and which guarantees a good distribution of resources for the planet.
This responsible diet promotes products...
- from organic and reasoned agriculture,
- and short circuit to limit the impact of transport and support local producers
- of the season to respect the cycles of nature
…and allows you to limit:
– packaging and waste,
- the waste food.
The law Egalim Agriculture and Food 2018 supports these practices by pursuing the following objectives: 1 / Dignified remuneration for producers 2 / Improvement of sanitary and environmental conditions of production 3 / Animal well-being 4 / Safe and sustainable healthy food for all 5 / Reduction of the use of plastic 6/ Fight against food waste.
In organizations and businesses, choosing sustainable food means adopting daily eco-responsible practices in the choice of food, in the management of containers, waste... and participate in maintaining the health and well-being at work of its collaborators. For restaurateurs, this is the guarantee of offering a quality, healthy cuisine, without pesticides and chemical products and to know the origin of the products.
Discover solution providers eco-responsible restaurants, registered on Takagreen, on the topics of:
- Responsible Sourcing
- Sustainable food (lunch break and snack)
- Responsible equipment
1. What solutions for responsible sourcing?
Products from responsible, local agriculture, short circuits, products from unsold products... Discover all the solutions selected for the supply collective catering, traders and restaurants.
- Producers of seasonal fruits and vegetables, from responsible agriculture : Nutreets (production in aquaponic greenhouses), Neofarm (agroecological and organic farms); Marshal freshness (collectives of producers of fresh and local baskets)
- Short circuit platforms without intermediaries : Direct market (facilitates relations between producers and traders); Biotoutcourt (digital direct sales platform) Caliphs (fresh products - responsible approach), Promoted (fresh produce wholesaler - short circuit)
- Management tool for the marketing of short circuit products : Socleo
- Participatory delivery of local products : Grinoloco
- Solution of outlets for unsold agricultural produce: Foodologic
- Companion Solution : Maia : supports collective catering in achieving Egalim objectives
- Solution for transporting local products: Agriflux by The path of blackberries
- Natural products made in France: The Spice Brigade,spices and seasonings for professionals
2. What solutions for healthier and more responsible lunch and coffee breaks?
- During the coffee break, equip your spaces with healthy and eco-responsible drinks and snacks with: Ethics ; Cabbie ; My green shop; Braam ; Totem; Fiveaday ; Fresh quarter
- Get delivered fruit baskets organic and local with: Fruity break, PimpUp ; La fruit box ; It's fresh ; Well O Job ; Fruity pleasures ;
- Use the services of caterers working from fresh and local products for healthy and balanced lunch breaks: Resolution ; The traveling vegetable garden ; They are carpets ; Delicorner ; Do you want ; The mill. Some work in zero waste : thank you, C our onions (100% vegetarian); The bumbling ; Lea's baskets
- Install connected canteens, real alternatives to traditional canteens (delivery of meal trays with online ordering, connected fridges, connected space): Pop chef, the canteen, Baobab Lab ; Foodles ; NOT !
- bring a Food truck with a kitchen, 100% homemade, made up of fresh and seasonal products: The Foodtruck Agency is a national network of 1200 Food Truck
- Consume surstock, invendus : Food Act is an anti-waste application
3. How to equip yourself to better consume and stop using single-use plastic (plastic bottles, cups, etc.)?
- Following the AGEC law, ERPs (establishments open to the public) will be obliged to equip themselves with drinking fountains by 2022. The following vendors offer dedicated solutions: WEATHER ; Emmo water for life, Fontaineo, Castalie, Aquapure
- There are also rinsing solutions eco-responsible mugs, cups & cups: Eggs, Freshcup
- Coffee machines without capsules with coffee upgrading: Express'eau
- Refurbished equipment for restaurants: a dress
4. What solutions to reduce waste and stop disposable packaging?
- Suggest reusable kits for your employees with again (takeaway sale without waste)
- Opt for reusable bottles and cups : Cup01, Balzeo, My linen cup, Vegan bottle, Newcy
- Use eco straws without plastic: The new straws, cork straw, Made in bamboo, Youpaï, straws
- Favor them packagings food and the ecological dishes: Nature side, switch eat (edible tableware), Nenuu, Zeapack, bamboo cap
- Use reusable alternatives to replace cellophane and foil: Slovakia
You would have understood it, eat well has become essential for yourself and for the planet. Fortunately there are many solutions to change its practices and thus offer a eco-responsible food : better quality products with less impact on the environment, limitation of waste, waste management, etc.
To engage in responsible food consumption, consult all the suppliers registered on our site Takagreen.