Abstract
Several initiatives have been put forward worldwide to tackle food waste at consumer level. Yet, up until now, a comprehensive analysis and a categorization of the most relevant ones have not been proposed. In this chapter we will seek to fill this literature gap, providing a cluster analysis of the main food waste initiatives. The purposes of this analysis have been: (i) to identify the main initiatives implemented at international level against food waste at consumption level; (ii) to create homogenous groups of similar initiatives through a cluster analysis; (iii) to highlight the differences and similarities of the initiatives across the different countries. Moreover, a brief excursus on how some big food corporations are dealing with food waste and how food sharing models can be important in reducing the phenomenon has been presented.
Keywords
- Food waste
- Food waste initiatives
- Cluster analysis
- Food waste reuse
- Food waste redistribution
- Food sharing models
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Source: www.lovefoodhatewaste.com.
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The Food Loss and Waste Protocol (FLW Protocol 2013) is a multi-stakeholder partnership, launched in 2013, which has developed the global Food Loss and Waste Accounting and Reporting Standard (or FLW Standard) for measuring food and/or associated inedible parts removed from the food supply chain. The main goal of the initiative is to implement an internationally accepted FLW accounting and reporting standard and tools, and to spread information about the food waste issue around the world, in order to make countries motivated to become more responsible and waste less.
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Source: http://leftoverswap.com/.
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Source: https://www.shareyourmeal.net/.
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Initiatives Sitography
Initiatives Sitography
Initiative Name | Source |
|---|---|
Banco Alimentare | |
Buon Fine | |
Last Minute Market | https://sites.google.com/lastminutemarket.it/2017/home?authuser=1 |
Buon Samaritano | |
Quel che c’è | |
Il buono che avanza | |
Buta Supa | |
IoMiAmo | |
FareShare | |
Food Cycle | |
Feeding the 5000 | |
Love Food, Hate Waste | |
This is Rubbish | |
Grow Sheffield’s Abundance Project | |
Approved Food | |
Great Taste Less Waste | |
Buy One, get one later | |
Réduisons nos déchets | |
ANDES | |
Plan National Nutrition Santè | |
City Harvest | |
Rock e Wrap It Up! | |
Feeding America | |
Society of St. Andrews | |
City Slicker Farms | |
Edible Schoolyard Project | |
Mesa Brasil del SESC | |
SAVE FOOD | |
foodwaste tv | |
Stop Wasting Food | |
Friends of Environment and Development Association | |
Operation Empty Plate | |
Clean Your Plate Campaign | https://www.pri.org/stories/2013-07-22/no-waste-lunch-chinas-clean-your-plate-campaign |
Food Recovery Network | |
NaDEET | |
Hands for Hunger | |
Annakshetra: SAVE FOOD | |
SecondBite | |
Food Wise | |
Paris Restaurants Turn Food Scraps Into Biogas | http://www.businessinsider.com/paris-restaurants-turn-food-scraps-into-biogas-2014-2?IR=T |
EcoScraps | |
Eviter la gaspillage alimentaire | https://www.pratique.fr/gaspillage-alimentaire-comment-eviter.html |
Lutter contre le Gaspillage Alimentaire | |
Green Cook | |
Appetite for Action | |
Calling Time on Waste | http://www.epa.ie/pubs/reports/waste/wpp/callingtimeonwaste.html#.U4JY5fldW8U |
Zero Waste | |
The Pig Idea | |
Voedselverspilling | |
Slow Food Youth Network | http://www.slowfoodyouthnetwork.org/where-are-we/youth-food-movement-brasil/ |
Essential Waitrose a little less than perfect apples | |
Every Crumb Counts | |
Anti-Waste Workshops—Cooking Classes | |
European Week for Waste Reduction | |
The Spanish Confederation of Consumer and User Cooperatives | |
Insignia Technologies | |
Sprecare non vale! | http://www.scuolachannel.it/projects/home/sprecarenonvale/progetto |
Happy Hour in bakery | |
Fish and shellfish by-products as food/feed/other | |
Culinary Misfits | |
DC Central Kitchen | |
The Dickinson College Farm | |
EU-FUSIONS | |
Save Food from the Fridge | |
The Postharvest Education Foundation | |
Springboard Kitchens | |
SolerCool Container | |
EPS’s Guide to Prevent food waste | http://www.foodwaste.ie/web-images/Food-Waste-Prevention-Guide.pdf |
Stop Food Waste Campaign | |
Zero Waste Initiative | |
Think Eat Save | |
Barilla Blue Box Pasta | |
Eurest respaurant and food campaign | |
Single Bananas | |
DiscoSoup | |
DIVE! | |
Do you have an amusement park in your fridge? | https://ec.europa.eu/food/safety/food_waste/good_practices/awareness_information_education_en |
Dutch Nutrition Centre: Information for consumer on food waste | |
Eetmaatje (Measure cup) | |
Un poco de tu compra es mucho | |
Fridge Sticker yes/no | |
Generation awake | |
International Food Waste Coalition | |
Io non spreco: adotta un nonno a pranzo | |
Io non spreco: snack-saver bag | |
Love Green | |
Menu Dose Certa | http://ec.europa.eu/environment/waste/prevention/pdf/MenuDoseCerta_Factsheet.pdf |
“Restaurant fines” | http://ec.europa.eu/environment/waste/prevention/pdf/MenuDoseCerta_Factsheet.pdf |
Restos Glücklich | https://ec.europa.eu/food/safety/food_waste/good_practices/awareness_information_education_en |
School waste heroes | |
Still Tasty | |
Taste the Waste | |
Waste | https://ec.europa.eu/food/safety/food_waste/good_practices/awareness_information_education_en |
Auchan Spa | |
Bennet | |
City Harvest London | |
Close Bakery | https://ec.europa.eu/food/safety/food_waste/good_practices/food_redistribution_en |
Daily Menus for Homeless | https://www.brno.cz/brno-aktualne/co-se-deje-v-brne/a/neprodana-menicka-dostavaji-bezdomovci/ |
Every Meals Matters | |
Next Door Help | |
OLIO | |
QUI Foundation Onlus | |
SitiCibo | |
Lebensmittel sind kostbar | |
Team Austria | |
We Love Food | |
Inglorious fruits and vegetables |
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Principato, L. (2018). Food Waste Initiatives at Consumption Level: A Categorization. In: Food Waste at Consumer Level. SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78887-6_4
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