The Guelph area held a funding opportunity contest for companies graduating from the R-Purpose MICRO Program looking to create sustainable products and reduce food or other waste.
The project created from the Virtual Demo Day hopes to help tiny companies with the aid of the Guelph regions Our Food Future initiative. The event consisted of 13 small companies pitching their ideas, the winner was Baked Box a company looking to make sustainable baking and snack boxes.
The competition is based on sustainability principles and aims to encourage small companies to look for ways to make their business eco-friendly and with less wasteful. The circular food economy is the idea used as the basis of the competition -- to create a system with the smallest amount of waste and to use biproducts and “waste” to create the product again filling the cyclical structure.
Baked Box has sustainability at its core with its boxes being sustainably sourced and made specifically to individuals dietary needs to reduce the amount of food waste in the system. Baked Box is creating a cyclical system by reducing wasted ingredients through their baking boxes and snacks, while sourcing all its packaging ethically and environmentally.