Electrolux commits to host Social Food Swap in Singapore to reduce food waste
To encourage people to swap unused food items or ingredients and reduce food waste, Electrolux has teamed up with ten other companies in Singapore.
Projects around the world
Established in 2016, the Electrolux Food Foundation has enabled local and global initiatives in several countries, including Brazil, Poland, Sweden and Malaysia, working together with partners.
Electrolux and partners will teach 30,000 kids about food waste by 2019
Today on World Food Day, the Electrolux Food Foundation, the student organisation AIESEC and Worldchefs announced that they commit to raise awareness about food waste by teaching 30,000 children on sustainable eating by 2019.
Electrolux North America prepared 87,000 meals to fight hunger for children in need
Electrolux recently held its annual Electrolux Cares Week across its North American operations. Dedicated to fighting hunger during the annual week of giving, this year, 4,500 Electrolux employees helped prepare more than 87,000 meals for needy children.
Electrolux backs culinary training for teenagers from orphanages in Moscow
The first graduates of the Electrolux Food Foundation culinary training on sustainable cooking for youth leaving orphanages in Moscow, are now ready to pursue a career in the professional culinary world.
Training the unemployed for a better future
The Electrolux Food Foundation – together with partners AIESEC and Worldchefs - is extending the successful zero-waste culinary training program for unemployed people to a second location in Brazil. Plans are also in place to launch the program in Argentina, Russia and Egypt in the near future.
Better food – Culinary education for employment – Curitiba, Brazil
This project provides training for young underprivileged people in Curitiba to enable them to get a job in a professional kitchen. The training took place in a specifically designed educational kitchen in an Electrolux facility, and the curriculum has been voluntarily delivered by 10 different chefs and coordinated by Electrolux.
Cares week – Food donation program – North America
Electrolux Cares Week, a week of volunteering and giving back in our communities, took place the week of September 25. Many Electrolux sites across North America participated in activities centered around tackling hunger.
Emergency relief program in Peru
In 2017, Peru was devastated by heavy rains and flooding. Many people lost their lives, and thousands were forced to evacuate their homes. The floods destroyed homes, schools, hospitals and restaurants. Two towns hit hard were Huarmey and Paita.
Food mission – Sustainable consumption and labor integration – Stockholm, Sweden
Electrolux is supporting Stockholm City Mission to open a social restaurant. This restaurant serves meals prepared using surplus food from Stockholm City Mission’s food bank. The project also focuses on labor integration as newly arrived immigrants and long-term unemployed will be trained in the restaurant to enable them to get a job in a professional kitchen.
Global sustainability curriculum
Large amounts of food and energy are wasted through traditional culinary practices – both inside the kitchen and in all the preceding steps in the food supply chain. The Sustainability Curriculum was created to help address this reality, to educate students and professionals on how to make sound food sustainability decisions and to empower them to lead change across the globe.
High-capacity mobile emergency relief kitchen
A high-capacity container kitchen will be developed and equipped with professional kitchen appliances. It will be activated immediately in emergency situations such as natural disasters or refugee crises.
My happy plate – Raising awareness to minimize food waste – Malaysia
Malaysia’s #myhappyplate is raising awareness among a younger generation of consumers about using leftovers. Project activities include consumer engagement by collecting pledges from the public and converting them to food bundle donations for underprivileged families.
Ozharvest – Food rescue program – Australia
In 2017, Australia officially joined the food waste movement in APAC. By establishing a three-year partnership with OzHarvest, Electrolux in Australia targets food that would otherwise be wasted to help feed people in need across the country.
SeasonYourEx – Consumer education campaign to minimize food wast – Singapore
The food waste community program in Singapore started in 2015 with the #happyplateSG campaign and continued with “Ugly is the new good” in 2016. The project supports the Food Bank Singapore.
Taste and share – Food-sharing and awareness campaign – Kraków, Poland
Together with Worldchefs and a local food-sharing NGO, Electrolux in Poland is: Organizing workshops for different groups of people, including our employees, journalists and food bloggers. Educating through social media campaigns.
Electrolux Poland launches Taste & Share app to help combat food waste
According to the UN’s Food & Agriculture organization, one third of the food produced in the world for human consumption – approximately 1.3 billion tons - gets lost or wasted each year. Electrolux has teamed up with local NGOs in Poland to develop an app for individuals and organizations to share food that might otherwise have ended up in the bin.
Electrolux Food Foundation partners with Australia’s food rescue charity
With funding from the Electrolux Food Foundation, Electrolux Home Products (EHP) in Australia has established a three-year partnership with the country’s leading food rescue charity OzHarvest to use food that would otherwise be wasted to help feed people in need across Australia.
The recipe for sustainable cooking
The Electrolux Food Foundation supports a global project launched by its partner Worldchefs to educate chefs to use food resources in a more sustainable way.
