Re-Use Systems as Business Opportunities in the Food Delivery Sector – Enabling factor and Challenges

Existing production and consumption patterns worldwide are mainly based on a linear commodity economy. Especially Single-Use Plastic ends up as waste after a short and single use - with disastrous consequences for marine and terrestrial ecosystems. To change this, we need solutions that prevent single-use plastic from entering the market in the first place. But how to prevent SUP when it comes to Food Delivery and Takeaway? What are existing good practices, and how can they be scaled? In two workshops, start-ups and companies from Southeast Asia and Germany present their existing business models for reusable systems. Together with legislators and policymakers, the political, legal, and social framework conditions that promote such reusable systems are discussed. The meetings aim to initiate a long-term, goal-oriented exchange between policymakers and companies opting for reusable systems.

Workshop 1: Re-Use Systems as Business Opportunities in the Food Delivery Sector – Enabling factor and Challenges

In this first workshop, companies and start-ups from South-East Asia and Germany present their business models for multi-use systems for food delivery and takeaway food. The workshop provides the opportunity to discuss the political and legislative framework conditions that help companies to establish themselves on the market successfully. 

The event is organised by the global project “Export Initiative for Green Technologies” implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment. The CAP SEA (Collaborative Action to reduce single-use plastic in Southeast Asia) initiative as a module within the project aims to reduce plastic waste and promote concepts and strategies for reuse systems in Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia.