Insights and evidence
The Zipli blog
Research, pilot data and regulatory context on food redistribution in Finland, for hub coordinators, sustainability leads and city officials.
For terminal coordinators
Terminal coordination and hub capacity
Why catering surplus is outgrowing manual coordination, and what Stadin Safka’s pilot changed.
Short read · 2 min
Why Finnish redistribution hubs are running out of coordination capacity
11 hubs, 6.6 million kg, and only 2 with any operational software. Where the gap breaks down, and what Stadin Safka did about it.
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Medium read · 4 min
Catering surplus is the fastest growing donation category in Finland
Retail donations are plateauing. Catering surplus nearly tripled its share of hub volume in a year. Here is why hubs are struggling to keep up.
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Long read · 7 min
Scale your donor network, not your workload
The coordination case for redistribution hubs: what changes when coordination overhead stops scaling with donor count.
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For sustainability leads
CSRD and multi-site food waste data
Why site-level logging rarely survives an audit, and what changed for Sodexo Finland.
Short read · 2 min
Why your food waste data is not ready for CSRD
Most catering chains track food waste. Almost none have data that would pass a CSRD audit. What it takes to fix that.
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Medium read · 4 min
Comparable food waste data across all your sites
Why it matters, why it is harder than it looks, and what the Sodexo Finland pilot proved about adoption.
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Long read · 7 min
From kitchen to boardroom
How Zipli turns daily food waste logging into portfolio-level ESG data, at kitchen, account manager and portfolio level.
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For city and municipal leaders
EU compliance and municipal infrastructure
What the binding 2030 EU targets mean for Finnish cities, and what Helsinki and Turku are already doing.
Short read · 2 min
The EU has set binding food waste targets
What the amended Waste Framework Directive means for Finnish cities, and why the deadline is 2030.
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Medium read · 4 min
How Turku, Helsinki and the EU directive are reshaping redistribution
What Helsinki’s Testbed pilot and Turku’s Bloomberg Mayors Challenge win mean for other Finnish cities.
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Long read · 7 min
Cities as food system actors
Why digital redistribution infrastructure is now a municipal compliance tool, not just a sustainability ambition.
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Impact and ESG
Environmental, social and governance impact
Every logged donation carries three kinds of impact at once. Why the data matters as much as the food.
Short read · 2 min
One logged donation. Three kinds of impact.
Why the data matters as much as the food, for the donor, the hub and the recipient.
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Medium read · 4 min
6.6 million kilograms and counting
Finland’s redistribution impact is real. Why the measurement gap limits how well it can be proven.
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Long read · 7 min
Turning excess food into opportunity
The full environmental, social and governance case for food redistribution data.
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Zipli vs. measurement tools
Measurement vs. redistribution
Why Winnow and Leanpath stop at the kitchen door, and what that means for CSRD chain of custody.
Short read · 2 min
Measurement and redistribution are not the same thing
A category confusion in the food waste technology market that is worth naming clearly.
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Medium read · 4 min
Why Leanpath and Winnow stop at the kitchen door
And why that matters for CSRD chain-of-custody reporting.
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Long read · 7 min
The kitchen door problem
Why food waste measurement and food waste redistribution need to work together.
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