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Resource Efficient Food and dRink for the Entire Supply cHain (REFRESH)
Start date: Jul 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2019,
The overall aim of the REFRESH project is to contribute significantly towards the objective of reducing food waste across the EU by 30% by 2025 (which amounts to between 25 to 40 million tonnes of food not being wasted in 2025[1], worth tens of billions of Euros a year) and maximizing the value from unavoidable food waste and packaging materials. To achieve this ambitious goal, we will adopt a sys ...
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An innovative solution to tackle food waste through the collaborative power of ICT networks (SavingFood)
Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2017,
Food waste has received global attention as a major sustainability challenge, with significant implications for the economy, society and the environment. At the same time, it represents a global paradox: whilst a large amount of the food produced each year is wasted, there are huge numbers of people suffering from hunger. SavingFood offers a novel approach to tackle food waste by turning this envi ...
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Food Use for Social Innovation by Optimising waste prevention Strategies (FUSIONS)
Start date: Aug 1, 2012, End date: Jul 31, 2016,
FUSIONS (Food Use for Social Innovation by Optimising waste prevention Strategies) will contribute to achieving a Resource Efficient Europe by significantly reducing food waste. It will achieve this through a comprehensive and experienced European partnership covering all key actors across the food supply chain, including regulatory, business, NGOs and knowledge institutes, all with strong links t ...
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Food Recovery and Waste Reduction
Start date: Nov 1, 2012,
In Europe an estimated amount of 50% of the food produced is wasted. This changes from country to country and from sector to sector but in the best case not less than 20% of our food ends up as waste, while more than 50 million of Europeans are at the risk of poverty. Food waste contributes to excess consumption of freshwater and fossil fuels which, along with methane and CO2 emissions from decomp ...
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