Two convenience store chains have touted measures to reduce waste.
FamilyMart on Thursday said its measures helped lower food waste production by 370 tonnes per month and plastic waste production by 100 tonnes per year.
FamilyMart Department of Business Planning director Liu Zhao-liang (柳昭良) said in a news release that the chain would build upon its efforts, seeking to reduce the amount of waste produced in the food production process, when stores order food products and in sales.
The chain has introduced the “friendly food hour,” in which food products that are to expire within seven hours are sold at a 30 percent discount, Liu said.
In 2019, FamilyMart followed up by introducing a real-time tracker for discounted food products and last year added the number of discounted items available at stores to the tracker, Liu added.
The chain this year implemented a new food ordering system, that enables store managers to order items based on artificial intelligence-generated data, he said.
FamilyMart has collaborated with National Taipei University to promote “negative carbon emission” products, it said, adding that as of last month, FamilyMart customers have purchases the equivalent of one tonne in carbon assets.
Separately, Uni-President Enterprises Corp, which runs the 7-Eleven store chain in Taiwan, said it is working toward achieving similar goals, beginning with its “smart tag,” introduced in 2014, to notify stores when a food item is about to expire.
Uni-President has implemented systems that project how many products stores should order, taking into account past sales and the weather, it said, adding that the system helps reduce inventory and waste production.
A line of vegetarian products that was introduced in 2020 has accumulated a carbon absorption capacity equivalent to four times the annual capacity of Daan Forest Park (大安森林公園) in Taipei, it added.
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