profile

Future Green Consulting Ltd

🌏 Future Green 5 Must Reads 🌏

Published 5 months ago • 4 min read

Future Green 5 Must Reads

Hey there sustainable food advocates – a huge thank you to all the experts, our co-facilitator, and all the attendees at our showpiece event UnConference 3.0 – Our Food Our Future: Innovative Solutions in Action, last Friday, 21st March! Even if you couldn’t make it this time, the great news is that the insights shared, the connections made, and the things learned – on topics including AI’s power to advance sustainability in the food sector – will multiply across the community at large, until the next edition. By then, there’ll be a whole load of new advances to discuss!

Just before UnConference 3.0, I was thrilled to be recognised in the Harper’s Bazaar Visionary Women Awards! It was presented at the ‘BAZAAR at Work Summit 2025 – Connecting Visionary Women’, held at The Fullerton Ocean Park Hotel in Hong Kong on 19th March. This award isn’t just for me, it’s for the entire Future Green community, and all the change makers working towards a more sustainable future!

The sustainability challenge never stops rolling, and neither do we. So join us on 10th April for our breakfast-session Roundtable With Belu, to learn and share insights on best-in-class food-sector and workplace practices for one of the world’s key recyclable commodities: water!

​
🤖 80: the number of change makers working either in food and drink-related businesses, NGOs, or governmental bodies, that attended our UnConference 3.0, highlighting the role of AI in pushing food-system improvements.

💦 Water is the ultimate recycled product. The same can’t be said for its packaging. What happens to it before, and up to the time it gets to your colleagues’ or customers’ cups, can become sweet spots in your organisation’s sustainability effort.

🥤 Reusable cup schemes work if there’s a network of merchants to receive them. A U.S. study including major coffee and fast food chains, showed 79% of cups returned, were dropped off somewhere other than the place the drink was purchased.

🏷️ 50.6%: proportion of over 16s in the European Union that were overweight in 2022, according to its data. Is that a good context for ditching Nutri-Score labelling?

🌾 110 million tonnes. Estimated minimum crop losses annually, due to microplastics interfering with plant photosynthesis, according to some Chinese research.

IDEAS DIDN’T JUST FLOAT, THEY LANDED!

Not so much a lookback at our UnConference 3.0, more a lookahead. The ideas and energy generated, can push food sector sustainability to the next level!

RETHINKING SINGLE-USE PACKAGING FOR WATER

Remember the 5.2mln plastic bottles used in Hong Kong daily? On 10th April, hear experts from Belu, DFI Retail Group and Muuse share ideas about MUCH NEEDED solutions.

HAPPY RETURNS. TIPPING POINT ON REUSABLE CUPS

‘Extended producer responsibility’ regulations for sustainable packaging are becoming a ‘thing’ in some U.S. states. Think about being proactive on it now.

DO NUTRI-SCORE LABELS REALLY DESERVE AN ‘F’?

Mandatory Nutri-Score labelling has been debated at European Commission level. We say consumers can have healthier lives with some labelling framework than none at all.

MICROPLASTICS: MENACE TO THE OCEAN (AND) SUFFOCATOR OF PLANTS?

Ever wiped airborne dust off plants on a balcony, and wondered what it’s doing to their health as well as yours? Microplastics could be starving them.

🌱 Ready to Lead in Food Sustainability? 🚀

Join the CPD-Certified Food Sustainability Foundations Course—a 30-day self-paced program with weekly coaching calls to help you integrate sustainability into your business.

Learn practical strategies, get expert guidance, and earn CPD certification.

Kicking off this April—don’t miss out! 🌱

Empower Your Business with Carbon Literacy!

Join our Carbon Literacy for Food & Drinks Businesses training on 22nd & 24th April, 5–8:30 PM HKT. 🌍

Gain the knowledge and tools to cut carbon emissions, drive sustainability, and make a lasting impact in the food & drinks industry. 🍴🌱

Don’t miss out—register now and take the first step toward a greener future! 💡✨.

​

​

For our UK clients, The Carbon Literacy Project is offering a fully funded opportunity for food SMEs to become Carbon Literate in collaboration with Compass Group. Check out more details here.

WHAT DO WE DO

Are you a sustainability leader, foodservice professional, food retailer, or organisation looking to make a real impact on food sustainability?
​
Look no further than Future Green, Asia’s go-to food sustainability consultancy.
​
We work at the intersection of food and sustainability, delivering knowledge sharing and insights that help build end-to-end solutions from strategies to implementation with the mission to scale sustainable food systems. Our partners include foodservice businesses, retail businesses, NGOs, and governmental organisations.
​
Join our diverse and influential community of like-minded individuals and organisations who all believe in the importance of food sustainability and sharing knowledge.
​
How we work with businesses:

  • Members Monthly Meetups and regular knowledge sharing webinars with experts on relevant topics aligning with the Future Green framework
  • Food Vision workshops to build a food sustainability roadmap
  • Carbon footprinting of your menu, audits and much more

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to become part of a community that’s driving real change in the food industry. Book a call with Heidi and the team.

Copyright © 2024 Future Green, All rights reserved.

Our mailing address:​
Future Green Hong Kong 208, 2/F, AXA Southside 38 Wong Chuk Hang Road
Wong Chuk Hang Hong Kong

Sprint Green Amsterdam Vijzelstraat 68, 1017 HL, Amsterdam, Netherlands

​
​
Want to change how you receive these emails?
​

You can unsubscribe from this list

To ensure you receive our emails in your inbox, please add hello@futuregreen.global to your contact list. If you find one of our emails in your spam folder, mark it as "Not Spam" to move it to your Safe Senders list. This will help you stay updated with our latest news and insights!

Future Green Consulting Ltd

Heidi Spurrell

Sustainability leaders in the food and drinks sector will find value in subscribing to my newsletter, which helps them stay on the cutting edge of sustainability without requiring significant time or effort. Future Green is dedicated to transforming food systems for a sustainable future, with a global team providing practical solutions and guidance for businesses to achieve sustainability in their food operations. Our approach focuses on delivering measurable results through rigorous audits, progressive strategies, and passionate advocacy for food sustainability. As a B Corp, we aim to create lasting change that benefits both the environment and communities worldwide.

Read more from Future Green Consulting Ltd

Future Green 5 Must Reads Hey there sustainable food advocates – make sustainability convenient and not a chore, and everyone can get on board! Don’t take my word for it, here’s Patrick Ho, Head of Sustainable Development at Swire Properties, about our Member, Muuse, the cup and food box use-and-return specialist: “Before partnering with Muuse, we identified convenience as a primary concern hindering the adoption of reuse behaviour among office workers.” Speaking of ‘returns’, we’re delighted...

about 1 month ago • 3 min read

Future Green 5 Must Reads Hey there sustainable food advocates – as summer hols season approaches, and ocean fever sets in, all of us should try – as individual consumers and as food-sector professionals – to make sure our seafood treats have the lowest-possible environmental impact. We have more in this edition on some of the latest initiatives to protect and enrich our seas. And for those of you always ‘on the go’ even during vacation time, we have plenty of food for thought via our...

about 2 months ago • 3 min read

Future Green 5 Must Reads Hey there sustainable food advocates – the food sector has commercial and sustainability-linked reasons for relearning knowledge on local edible plants, and recipes tied to them. That’s why having wild-food foraging expert Wanda Huang at our June Members Monthly Meetup was such a fantastic resource, and such a great opportunity for us to learn from her, and to spread her know-how. Remember though, if you’re HK-based, it can be challenging to harvest truly wild...

2 months ago • 3 min read