Goal: Make healthy and sustainable eating the preferred choice
We want to inspire people to eat, source and care for food in a way that benefits both people and planet—without sacrificing enjoyment.
Better eating
Food is the single most critical factor when it comes to our health. It is also critical to our planet’s health, with the food industry accounting for one third of global energy consumption and over 20 percent of emissions.* All the more shocking, then, that 30 percent of the food we buy is thrown away,** even though one-ninth of the world is going to sleep hungry each night.*** That is why we aim to help people make better eating choices in ways that are effortless and enjoyable.
Sources:
*UN SDG, 2018 **UN SDG, 2018 ***Food Aid Foundation, Hunger Map, 2019
“We always try to find better solutions for food preservation. But sustainable eating is also about changing behavior. It’s about taking small steps for a bigger cause.”
Our focus areas
To effectively guide us towards our goal of making healthy and sustainable eating the preferred choice, we need to change the ways we consume and handle food. To help make every meal a conscious act of better living, we need to drive change by educating consumers, exploring new technologies, and working with partners who share our goals. We will focus the actions we take on three areas – reducing food waste, healthy eating, and food experiences.
Our focus areas for better eating are:
Reduce food waste
Work to reduce food waste in every way we can.
We’re in a position to drive real change in homes around food waste.
Part of this means constantly exploring new solutions for storing, preparing and preserving food to keep it as fresh as possible for as long as possible.
But this is just one part of our plan to take on the issue. Another is by using our platform to inspire consumers. We want to share practical knowledge on how everyone can reduce food waste in their own kitchens, by showing ways to store food, as well as how to prepare delicious snacks and meals with ingredients and leftovers that might otherwise be discarded.
To increase the impact, we will continue to create conversation around the food waste issue and join forces with partners who share our passion and commitment to tackling the problem.
Healthy eating for you and the planet
Inspire more plant-based eating and minimize nutrition loss in cooking.
We believe we can make healthy eating more desirable, more accessible and simply effortless.
One important aspect of this is encouraging people to choose more plant-based foods. To do this, we want to raise awareness of both the environmental damage caused by the food industry and decreased nutrition in modern diets to help consumers make more healthy and sustainable choices when it comes to what food they buy and eat.
At the same time, we will continue to develop preservation solutions and cooking methods that enhance plant-based eating to encourage consumers to move towards a diet that is kinder on both health and the planet.
We’ll also continue with our community investment efforts to inspire sustainable eating and cooking and help people in need through our Electrolux Food Foundation and its global partners.
Improved food experiences
Enhance the experience of eating sustainably through enriched tastes, textures and colors.
We want to improve the tastes, textures and colors of sustainable, healthy foods to make people consciously choose them as their preferred option.
To enhance the taste experience for the consumer, we will explore exciting new possibilities of the connected kitchen and introduce innovations that make it enjoyable and effortless to create healthy meals.
With our culinary knowledge and expertise, we will also work with chefs to develop and launch recipes that introduce new and exciting tastes to the food palette and help consumers to choose perfect alternatives to unhealthy or carbon-intensive meal choices.
By improving the food experience through new tastes and connected cooking technologies, we can encourage healthy eating habits that are more enjoyable than ever before.
Explore our actions
We add new actions on an ongoing basis, from innovations and prototypes to industry collaborations, donations, and educational initiatives. Explore our evolving list of completed and ongoing actions.
Better Living action plan
The Better Living action plan by Electrolux Group is a range of actions to support our goals within the domains of better eating, better clothing care, and better wellbeing at home. It also encompasses how Electrolux Group can better its own operations. If you have any questions, please write to us at: sustainability@electrolux.com
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Better Living action plan by Electrolux Group
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