Circular Economy of Food: A Food Design action for the use of pre-consumption disposal in the local ice cream production chain

Abstract

Food waste is a problem that requires immediate overcoming, and, in this sense, Design can collaborate by proposing solutions that replace current predatory narratives with others, structured in the balance between the dimensions of sustainability. That said, this article presents the results of a Case Study carried out in 2021 at Federal University of Alagoas - UFAL, which aimed to develop a food product from pre-consumer waste of ice cream cones generated by fast-food companies in the city of Maceió – Alagoas. For this, we used Design approaches for the Circular Economy and Food Design for food sustainability, supported by empirical data collection. The generated product was submitted to a validation process, described here, to verify public acceptance for production feasibility. Finally, the final considerations of the process and the method are presented.