Yann Hamon 08h00, June 06, 2022
With its Future Trophies, Europe 1 rewards companies, associations or local authorities each year for their audacity, their innovation and their visionary side.
In the running for the Europe 1 Food Trophy, Beesk recovers non-standard agricultural products to reduce waste.
Twisted carrots or split cheese wheels, Beesk, founded four years ago by Faustine Calvarin and Fabien Gastou, collects non-standard foods to transform them into dishes for collective catering.
"We buy products from producers that will never be marketed because they are out of the ordinary, too small, a split cheese, a stained orange or an underweight dessert. These products are then sold to collective catering in an environmental and social approach. “, specifies Faustine Calvarin.
Beesk thus fights against food waste at the root, among French producers and processors.
A problem that concerns all food sectors, from meat to fish, including dairy products and sweet and savory caterers.
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The start-up, which supplies nearly 70% of collective catering players, is gradually aiming for deployment throughout the national territory in order to get closer to its customers and offer local anti-waste "sourcing".
In the long term, Faustine Calvarin would like "above all to stop producing to throw away, to support our French food industry in difficulty and to help collective catering to achieve its objectives with just common sense".