Circular Innovation Council and the City of Calgary, working alongside local private and public interests, are piloting an innovative regional co-operative model shared by the local food and food waste value chain to optimize organics recycling, improve food and food waste diversion, and mitigate food loss.
The program simplifies the donation of edible food surplus and reduces the cost of food waste collection for businesses and organizations.
Our food waste diversion pilot offers:
Read the press release, “Circular Innovation Council Expands Award-Winning IC&I Food Rescue and Food Waste Diversion Pilot to Calgary”.
The pilot, created by Circular Innovation Council, is hosted by the City of Calgary. Our local operational partners, Leftovers Foundation and Bluplanet Recycling, help realize the project. The pilot is made possible thanks to funding by the Alberta Ecotrust Foundation’s Environmental Impact Grant Program, as well as Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Food Waste Reduction Challenge, which selected this program as a finalist in their Business Models streams. Technology sponsorship comes from Telus Business and Superfry.
We respectfully acknowledge that we live, work and play on the traditional territory of many Indigenous Nations and we humbly extend my respect to Indigenous individuals, communities and Elders, past and present, as the traditional custodians of this land.
Circular Innovation Council is a registered charity.
Charity Registration Number: 119112118 RR 0001
