Circular Practice 092 & 093

Circular Practice #92

Let's mirror nature to radically redesign Closed Loop Systems for optimal resource use, like Ideal Fish.?

Fish is one of the most popular forms of animal protein, with over 3.2 billion people relying on it as 20% of their protein intake. Unfortunately, many of the practices and methods of the commercial fishing industry also threaten ocean environments, including -?

• Bottom trawling, in which a net is dragged along the ocean floor, causes an estimated 95% of global ocean damage
• 640,000 tons of fishing gear is left as waste in our oceans each year, which is the equivalent of the weight of 50 thousand double-decker buses. Fishing nets account for 86 percent of the large plastics within the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Being made from plastic and nylon, they do not decompose, wreaking extreme havoc on the wildlife and ecosystems they interrupt.
• Fishing and pollution from fishing are the largest contributors to the decline in ocean health and water quality.?

Aquafarming, the cultivation of marine or freshwater organisms under controlled conditions, has risen quickly in demand to overcome these challenges. Unfortunately, it raises problems of its own through the build up of nutrients in the growing environment, harming the sea life.?

Ideal Fish are working with nature, not against it, by creating a closed loop system for fish production. The aquaculture business is a land-based, growing fish in a state of the art recirculating aquaculture system that recovers and reuses the by-products of fish cultivation.

Water is recycled to minimise the carbon footprint from production, and all fish waste is captured to produce fertiliser for local farmers. Ideal Fish currently utilise their bi-products to produce fish broth and pet food.

“We grow sustainably clean, fresh, cage-free fish. We feed and support local communities and help our oceans heal.”

Circular Practice #93

Let's mirror nature to radically redesign Closed Loop Systems for optimal resource use, like LILO.?

Roughly one-third of all food produced worldwide is wasted. Where income is low, waste is generally unintentional and occurs on farms or during storage or distribution. In regions of higher income, food waste dominates further along the supply chain. Retailers and consumers reject food based on bumps, bruises, and colouring, or simply order, buy, and serve too much.

When food is wasted, all the energy, resources, and money that went into producing, processing, packaging, and transporting it are wasted, too. The food we waste is responsible for roughly 8 percent of global emissions.

LILO is on a mission to get fruit tasted not wasted, collaborating with orchardists to harness the fruit some say is “ugly” and turn it into ‘delicious, mood-enhancing snacks’.?

“There are no imperfect natural foods, Only Food Imperfect Systems”

LILO has a clear manifesto - standing up to change our food systems and firmly believing it's our responsibility, as a part of this connected global village, to improve our food system.

“The more we looked into our fruit system, the more we discovered an outdated focus on perfection for export. No splits, no faults, no blemishes, it said. Only perfect fruit could leave New Zealand shores; and a huge percentage (over 10% of certain varieties) of fruit that stayed went to waste. We found this scary. If it’s all supernatural stuff, even if a little ugly, why are we allowing tonnes of it to rot.. we celebrate an industry that exports tonnes of perfect produce every year, but almost 10% will never make it off the orchard.. If LILO could channel its generational focus to do more with fruit waste, it could turn it into a supercharged, supernatural portfolio of snacking for global delight. It would mean that we are living out our purpose, directing good energy across local ecosystems and global villages.”