The company founded in 2019 works with the community sector and collects surplus food every day in company canteens, hospitals and educational centers.

Everyone knows the problem of food surplus. While a third of global food production is wasted, on the other hand, we see how in Spain alone more than 6 million people suffer some type of food poverty. With these data on the table, Oreka Circular Economy was launched in 2019. The company is dedicated to helping the food industry reduce and donate their surplus food in a simple, safe and cost-effective way. Their mission is to end food waste by ensuring that surplus is used to its highest and best potential: feeding those who need it most.

Oreka is structured as a monthly subscription platform that offers a surplus reduction and donation service. Every day its customers schedule their surplus food in the application, and its networks of drivers redistribute it safely to approved receiving entities. In this way, technology offers them data to make decisions for reduction, generate tax savings and carry out social and environmental impact reports.

The company works mainly in the community sector. It collects surplus food daily in large canteens such as those of companies, hospitals or educational centers, but it is also in the area of ​​large events. It currently operates nationally, but its clients are large international companies.

During his career, he has collaborated with, among others, Gastronomía Baska, one of the first to trust the company; the Iberdrola Tower, one of its latest additions; Inditex, the first corporate dining room in which he worked and which quickly expanded the service to its two locations; large events at the Bilbao Exhibition Center such as Innovate4Climate or WindEurope, events in which it has contributed to avoiding minimum surpluses in events of these characteristics, or Banco Santander, with which it carries out corporate volunteering actions and whose workers distribute meals in the same dining room that receives the food surplus from their dining rooms.

Looking to the future, Oreka Circular Economy hopes to expand its workforce. It started the year with three people, now it has one more and hopes to end 2024 with six workers. In addition, it currently works on 3 strategic axes: consolidating the team, growing the activity and improving technology.