Food Waste Archives – HKFoodWorks

#5 Waste less

Finally, throwing away food is bad for the environment and a waste of the natural resources that went into its...

05/04/2024

The Story of Breadline

The story of breadline is about food rescue and what happens to food when it can no longer be sold...

10/07/2021

Technology for Good

How do you design technology for good? Breadline is not only a webapp that collects surplus food for the poor,...

25/03/2021

Food Waste in Asian Cities Singapore & Hong Kong

Food waste is a global issue, but for Asian cities like Singapore and Hong Kong, the majority of the waste...

16/03/2021

Our Dystopic Food System

Our dystopic food system produces both both hunger and excess, a logic so contradictory that seems only possible in dystopic...

17/02/2021

Rethinking living with urban agriculture

In every crisis there is an opportunity, and now is the time to rethink what living could mean if we...

11/08/2020

Live Like It’s Doomsday 我們日用的飲食, 怎樣交給我們？

Pushing my trolley around the supermarkets’ empty shelves a few months ago – I couldn’t help but replay the scene...

05/05/2020

The New Asia

So proud to see Breadline featured alongside other innovative projects selected to represent the New Asia in Tatler’s launch issue....

09/03/2020

Breadline web app

Breadline is Hong Kong’s first crowdsourced food rescue web app that connects donors with volunteers and charities so surplus food...

29/02/2020

Food rescue for sustainability on RTHK 日常8點半

The future of food is tied to the future of our cities. In this interview on RTHK, I framed the...

30/10/2019

Crowdsourcing logistics for food rescue at Nesta

Breadline was featured at Nesta’s conference held in London this year. My research “Networked Intelligent Actions – crowdsourcing food rescue”...

16/10/2019

Breadline HK food rescue application on RTHK

An opportunity to discuss the step-by-step logistical issues of food rescue and my web application Breadline on RTHK Radio 1...

05/10/2019

A Sci-Fi Short about the Future of Food

Science fiction seems like a logical place to explore the future of food. How are we going to feed the...

30/09/2019

Tatler Eco Heroes – innovative ideas in sustainability

Breadline has been chosen by Tatler as one of the five innovative ideas on sustainability in Hong Kong, and thanks...

02/08/2019

Food to the Rescue with Noreen Mir

In this interview with Noreen Mir, we chatted about my latest work Breadline – what it is, how it works...

18/07/2019

浸大研發「救食」平台聯網收剩麵包派基層

Breadline makes its debut! This is the first crowdsourcing food rescue web application in Hong Kong that connects donors with...

15/07/2019

It’s Food. Not Waste

In my talks, I have often spoken of the benefits of food donation or food rescue. In this video, I...

24/03/2019

The Future of Food and the City: Security, Sustainability or Resilience?

Hong Kong and Singapore are often considered twin cities on the global stage – it is similar in terms of...

08/03/2019

Food Security & Resilience Hackathon

What did you say? A hackathon on food security and resilience? How could I not jump at the opportunity to...

10/11/2018

Better Business Innovation Series

As part of the Better Business Innovation Series, the American and British Chamber of Commerce brought together key players in...

14/06/2018

A Zero Waste Journey

A wonderful occasion to discuss LIVE on air on the effects of food waste in the city. My position has...

30/05/2018

Food Waste Recycling

A morning ramble on RTHK’s BackChat programme to share my thoughts on food waste recycling. I’m calling on industries to...

11/05/2018

譚迪詩談糧食供應問題

An opportunity to discuss the state of Hong Kong’s urban food system. How do we begin to build a stronger,...

06/03/2018

Hong Kong Zero-Waste Champions on South China Morning Post

Featured as one of six women leaders of Hong Kong’s “zero-waste” movement. I spoke to Lauren James about my research...

03/03/2018

Partners in Slovak!

I gave an interview in English for the Solvak journal Kapital which published an issue on waste earlier this year...

08/02/2018

City University Creative Media Colloquium

Speaking to a packed room of students at City University was a great way to kick start 2018! Introducing students...

16/01/2018

Tis the season to be… sustainable

The festive season is a time of celebration, and unfortunately also a time of excess. As Christmas draws near, Laurie...

16/12/2017

Hong Kong Academy

As part of the Interdisciplinary Unit of their IB curriculum, this group of Grade 7s from Hong Kong Academy spent...

04/12/2017

Consuming Nature

The Zurich University of the Arts hosted a talk series on the topic of Ecologies: Matters of Coexistence for their...

19/09/2017

Food’s Future Summit 2017

A one-day event that brought together practitioners and entrepreneurs who are keen to change the way we eat. My panel...

12/08/2017

Zero Heroes – HK’s Most Inspiring Zero Waste Kings & Queens

Featured in Green Queen as one of the Zero Heroes, I talked to Jenny Star Lor about the beginnings of...

09/06/2017

Putting the Crowd to Work at MIT

This has been a long-awaited workshop. Taking place in the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston, this seminar...

03/04/2017

How Secure is Food? Tedx Wanchai 2016

An opportunity to speak to an audience of 1200 at the Academy of Performing Arts – the largest Tedx event...

29/10/2016

譚迪詩：「看不見」的城市糧食安全危機

In this opinion piece (Initium), I was invited to write about my research on Hong Kong’s food system. Framing the...

31/07/2016

Curbing Food Waste with Technology

As part of the month long event aimed at using technology to tackle food waste in the F&B sector in...

22/07/2016

Topic: Food Waste