Food waste and climate change with Corin Bell

A warm Mancunian welcome to all my listeners. Presenting Season 6, Episode 3 of the #MeettheMancunian #podcast #mancunian #manchester #sustainability #foodwaste climate change #foodinsecurity #community #socialimpact #nonprofit #socialenterprise #britishfoodfortnight. I'm Deepa Thomas-Sutcliffe, your friendly host.

In the third episode, the Meet the Mancunian podcast talks to Corin Bell [https://www.linkedin.com/in/corin-bell-1999825a/], Executive Director, Open Kitchen Manchester [https://www.openkitchenmcr.co.uk/]about Open Kitchen's commitment to producing food in the most sustainable and ethical way possible. This includes working with a range of food businesses to stop good food from being wasted and purchasing ingredients from local, sustainable, and ethical suppliers. The chefs use this ever-changing mix to produce nutritious, seasonal menus that offer the lowest carbon catering possible at their café at the People History's Museum & the catering business.

Corin also shares how their profits from the catering and café business go into providing food and supplying meals for people struggling with food insecurity across Greater Manchester delivering food and supplies to independent food banks, food pantry projects and people living in temporary accommodation. She looks forward to a future where food banks are no longer needed, and food waste doesn't happen.

Did you know:

·      A recent study by the UN FAO [http://www.fao.org/docrep/018/i3347e/i3347e.pdf] showed that the carbon footprint of wasted food currently stands at 3.3 gigatonnes. If food waste was a country, it would be the 3rd highest carbon emitter on the planet after the US and China.

·      36 million tonnes [https://lovefoodhatewaste.com/] of greenhouse gas emissions could be prevented by saving food from our bins in UK homes.

Time stamps of key moments in the podcast episode & transcript:

00:03:15 sharing her passion for addressing food waste

00:04:37 talking about Open Kitchen Manchester

00:09:06 the café at People's History Museum

00:13:35 some of the challenges she had to overcome

00:17:45 tackling food insecurity in Manchester

Listen to the episode and read the transcript on www.meetthemancunian.co.uk [http://www.meetthemancunian.co.uk/]