Food in Canada
Helping food manufacturers see opportunity where others see waste.
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The challenge
CSA Group had recently launched a new food waste standard designed to help organizations identify, measure, and reduce food waste.
The challenge was helping food manufacturers understand why it mattered.
Food waste is often framed as a sustainability issue, but for manufacturers it’s also an operational, financial, and strategic challenge. Reducing waste requires balancing food safety, quality, efficiency, regulations, and consumer expectations—often with competing priorities and limited visibility into the broader system.
The article needed to introduce the standard while helping readers see the opportunities it could create.
Finding what matters
As research and interviews progressed, a clear theme emerged.
The conversation was about more than preventing waste. It was about creating value.
Across the food system, organizations are finding new ways to recover products, improve processes, share information, and rethink how waste is measured and managed.
The most interesting stories were about what could still be gained.
Giving it language
The article translated technical concepts, industry expertise, and emerging practices into language that could engage a broad audience without sacrificing credibility.
Rather than focusing solely on the scale of the problem, the piece explored the opportunities available to organizations willing to think differently about food waste.
The goal was to create an article that informed, challenged assumptions, and encouraged new ways of looking at a familiar issue.
Bringing it to life
This article was developed for Amplify Studio and published in Food in Canada to introduce a new CSA Group food waste standard and explore its implications for food manufacturers.
The piece combined research and interviews to examine how standards can help organizations identify opportunities, improve decision-making, and reduce waste across the food value chain.
The outcome
The final article helped translate a complex industry topic into an accessible and engaging story for readers.
By shifting the conversation from waste alone to the opportunities hidden within it, the piece offered a more nuanced perspective on one of the food industry’s most persistent challenges.