Food Market Tomorrow | Xinwei

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Food Market Tomorrow
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London produces nearly 2 million tonnes of food waste and releases 250,000 tonnes of unnecessary CO2 emissions every year. Sending them to biogas plants produces CO2 footprints as well. Decentralized small-scale biogas generation is a developed technology that can turn food waste into energy and a better solution. Based on experiments in a living area, London citizens are not prepared to make their biogas for households for now.

Urban food markets are popular places that are suitable as a platform to start educating people and engage them in making green energy. Currently, market food waste just waits in the bins for the twice-a-week collection, there are around 680kg of food waste produced every day. If turned into biogas on-site, they will be able to power 40 food stalls to cook for another day.

Modifying current food markets into circular markets allows people to experience the capability of green energy and engage them as a part of the system. It also results in financial savings in the energy cost and waste disposal cost for the market. Additionally, it contributes to the nation's Emission Trading Scheme by reducing methane and CO2 footprints.
How does your work address the 3 P’s (for Planet, for People, for Profit) for Sustainability?

For Planet
• less CO2 footprints and methane released
• regenerative resources are produced

For People
• novel experience and rewards for making sustainable acts
• increased sense of civil responsibility
• sense of engagement and belonging for the local residents

For Profits
• for food stall vendors: lower energy bills, quality ingredients and green branding
• for the market: no more waste disposal bills and green branding
• for the government: public education, less national emissions and a big step towards Net Zero
Where (country, region, etc.) have you primarily carried out your project?

United Kingdom
What is the timeline your project has taken place over?

05.2022 - 08.2022
Keywords

#Food Waste #Green Energy #Co-engagement
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Special Prize Question 1: Is there a mechanism in place to inherit culture and industry as assets for people living in that area 100 or even 1000 years from now?
Special Prize Question 2: What is the positive impact on biodiversity? Is the project creating a cycle not just from a human-centered perspective but for the entire ecosystem?
Special Prize Question 3: Are you enabling new forms of collaboration with others? New forms of collaboration might include cross-industry cooperation, co-creation with consumers, or role transformations within the supply chain.

This system foster a co-creation relationship between food stall vendors, market workers, visitors and local residents to close the circular loop.

For food vendors, they receive biogas made from their customers and ingredients grown by nearby residents. For market workers, they receive help from market customers. For visitors, they benefit from biogas made by previous visitors and they can follow the steps. For growers, especially environmentalist communities and citizens who have time, growing at the market hydroponic greenhouse can endow them with the sense of engagement in sustainability and sharing.

The system not only have benefits on the planet and profits, but also creates a stronger bonding relationship for different groups of people who are physically close, but do not intersect before.