Katy Barfield

Ep. 35  Katy Barfield

Katy Barfield has been described as a food waste warrior, an award winning female founder, circular economy ambassador, food tech expert, food system disruptor, not for profit leader, board member, government advisor and....occasional dolphin rescuer. 

As Founder and CEO of Yume Australia, Katy realised that food rescue was not going to be enough - she did that with Second Bite for many years and, whilst she still thinks organisations like Second Bite and OzHarvest are very important, Yume was brought about to scale up food distribution and get some money back in the hands of the farmers and producers, to make a real impact on the 4.1 million tonnes of commercial food waste per year. That's enough, if the food were stacked on pallets and the pallets were stacked on each other, to reach the space station......14 times over. Annually.

At its simplest, it's Australia's first online marketplace for surplus food. There are only three other organisations around the world utilising similar technology to do the same thing. They estimate that in the next three years, Yume will have prevented 10,000,000 kgs of food from going to waste. 

And food waste is the third biggest contributor to global warming. So it's worth this effort. 

www.yumefood.com.au

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