NOW – No more Organic Waste is a project conducted by the social cooperative CAUTO of Brescia over three years and with the support of the LIFE+ Programme of the European Commission.
The model developed by NOW collects food items donated by supermarket chains to convey them to the associations that make and distribute meals to people in need. The Food Dispensary acts as a platform that guarantees the quality, traceability and variability of distributed food. By doing so, it avoids discarding precious nutrients, which would otherwise end in the municipal waste stream, thus generating considerable environmental benefits. By creating new employment opportunities it also participates to the advent of an inclusive circular economy.
In many ways, it is an innovative experience that anticipates the implementation of the objectives expressed by the European Commission in its Communication: "Towards a circular economy: a zero waste programme for Europe" issued on July 2, 2014.
We owe to Alessandra Vaccari and Gaelle Ridolfi of Indica srl – among the major italian experts on the subject – the modeling, the definition of indicators and macro-indicators, and the analysis of the model.
Edited by:
Foreword
1. Reasons for initiating NOW
2. The origins of a model
3. Managing food waste
4. Valutating and transferring the model
5. Concluding remarks
Appendixes
Notes
Biographies
| Pubblicazione: | dicembre 2014 |
| Pagine: | 78 |
| ISBN: | 9788866271543 |
