Many organizations offer food for their staff, visitors, students, patients,... With or without an external service provider. As a procurer you have a major influence on the environmental impact here. Both through the choice of products that are offered, and by avoiding food waste. The social aspect is also important in this product group. Offer the producers fair prices and consider the employment of people with a distance to the labor market. In addition, your menu can also make consumers aware of sustainable and healthy food. Are you going to make your current menu of offer more circular? Then put sufficient emphasis on communication. Love goes through the stomach afterall...
Choose products with a long shelf life and optimize storage methods so that you have as little food loss as possible
Not all labels have the same value, so take a critical look at which labels you ask for, whether they are sufficiently related to the subject of the assignment and whether there are enough products available on the market to meet the demand. You must also explicitly demonstrate that you accept equivalent products.
The Spadel group, which is active in the Benelux, Bulgaria, France and the United Kingdom, sells natural mineral water, spring water and drinks based on natural water. Spadel is a great believer in t…
Peter Bottelberghts: "The UZA has already concluded a circular contract concerning the operation of the patient kitchen, staff restaurant and commercial area in a public–private partnership for a per…
Peter Van Steenkiste: "We defined five circular challenges: fairtrade & healthy crops future-proof production circular packaging green logistics close-the-loop partnerships We’re…
This manual is a comprehensive resource that covers all aspects of procurement and guides the procurement officer in adopting procurement practices that promote healthy and sustainable diets. It also…
The ultimate guide from Zero Waste Scotland.
In this publication, Sustainable food contact materials in the European healthcare sector, HCWH has gathered information on the health and environmental risks of commonly used FCMs, including plastic…
The StratKIT project has developed eight recommendations on Sustainable and Healthy School Food Procurement for national and EU policy makers as part of the Procura+ City Interest Group on School Foo…
EU Food Policy Coalition published their common policy recommendations for sustainable food public procurement, which, if implemented, would be a win-win strategy to achieve healthy and sustainable d…
A toolkit to assist procurement practitioners in their provision of meals in the public sector has been developed through the EU-funded StratKIT project.
Complete case study from the EU GPP in practice series.
This handbook provides local governments with concrete tools to facilitate the transition to a circular food system, from stakeholder engagement to designing effective policies.
This is an English translation of short case descriptions that are part of a larger report on Circular Procurement and Strategies among Norwegian Municipalities, developed by Inventura AS on behalf o…
This work provides a framework to understand reuse, identifies six major benefits of reuse, and maps 69 reuse examples.
Recently published guide on how to use public procurement to address single-use plastics in the Mediterranean region -specially in the packaging and food and beverage sectors, as they are the main co…
The European Commission developed a series of sector specific LCC calculation tools which aim to facilitate the use of LCC amongst public procurers. This is the user guide to the LCC tool for GPP of …
The European Commission has developped a series of sector specific LCC calculation tools which aim to facilitate the use of LCC amongst public procurers. This is the LCC tool for the GPP of vending m…
The EU GPP criteria are developed to facilitate the inclusion of green requirements in public tender documents. While the adopted EU GPP criteria aim to reach a good balance between environmental per…
Information about circular procument and example cases per specific product category.