What if we analysed T&T’s most iconic street food through a circular economy lens?
The Doubles Value Chain reminds us that even a single serving of doubles touches:
🌐 Global agriculture
🚢 Import logistics
🚚 Wholesale distribution
🍘 Street-level micro-enterprise
⚡ Energy and water systems
🚮 Organic waste streams
📦 Packaging flows
⛽ GHG emissions
Food is never “just food.” It is an economic system.
At Fed Up Caribbean, we apply life-cycle thinking to everyday food systems — identifying where carbon emissions occur, where local value leaks from the system, and where it can be recovered through:
✔ Used oil repurposing
✔ Organic waste composting
✔ Packaging redesign
✔ Vendor clustering models
✔ Energy efficiency strategies
✔ Circular procurement frameworks
Circular Economy in the Caribbean must start with real, culturally relevant systems — like doubles.
Because when we understand and tailor food value chains, we can strengthen:
• National and Regional Food Security
• Local standards of living
• Environmental Stewardship
• Local value added
• Socioeconomic resilience
Fed Up Caribbean is advancing sensible, locally grounded, circular solutions for the region’s food ecosystem. Wasting our valuable local resources, especially food, is simply nonsensical.
The transition from a Linear Economy to a more Circular one is not theoretical. It’s practical…..and it’s already on our plates (or, in the case of doubles, in our hands).