FOOD SYSTEMS
The Circle Up Podcast by Circular Philadelphia
S1 · E4
Nov 21, 2025
59:15
Episode notes

What would your trash say about how you eat? For most of us, it’s a mix of takeout containers, cans, and plastic packaging. In Philadelphia, that adds up fast – and our food system is a major driver of single-use waste.

This time, hosts Candice Lawton and Sam Wittchen explore what it takes to redesign how food gets to our plates. Building on earlier conversations about recycling, reuse, and composting, they look at how local businesses are cutting packaging, shortening supply chains, and keeping value in the region.

Munish Narula of Tiffin shares how customer pressure led his restaurant group to launch a reusable takeout container program – and what it took to make it work technologically, financially, and within city health codes. Then Dylan Baird of Philly Food Works explains how their online farmers market strengthens Philadelphia’ ... 

Keywords
circular economy
recycling
sustainable living
zero waste
Circular Philadelphia
second life
reuse
sustainability
food systems
packaging
Tiffin