Climate change. Food insecurity. A fragile global food system. All these challenges are worsened by food loss and waste.
In Denmark, almost 900,000 tonnes of food is thrown away every year, and with the launch of Denmark's first food waste strategy, the Danish Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries is taking a big step towards reducing the large amounts of food waste.
Meet Carlos Hipolito, the visionary leader at the helm of Phenix Portugal, a company committed to combating food waste by bridging the gap between major contributors in the food supply chain and charitable organizations.
Read about the key points from panel discussion organised by F6S on behalf of the ZeroW Project, bringing together three industry luminaries.
In the ongoing crusade against food waste, innovative strategies are emerging to confront the challenge head-on. Recently, stakeholders from diverse sectors converged in workshops organized by the ZeroW project to discuss and refine strategies for scaling
ZeroW & SISTERS has created this joint statement which calls for crucial revisions to the Waste Framework Directive, a key influencer in EU waste policies. The statement is endorsed by Agro2Circular, ClieNFarms, ENOUGH and PestNu projects.
In October, companies, technological centres and universities from southern Spain gathered to learn more about the ZeroW project and Food Loss & Waste reduction. The workshop was organised by Grupo La CaΓ±a.
Managing Director of the Sustainable Innovation Technology Services Ltd company, Leonardo Piccinetti has had worked for more than 20 years to tackle the challenges of food loss and waste with policies and project initiatives.
In this short overview, ZeroW Project Coordinator Anna George gives an update on the progress of the ZeroW project including results and achievements from the first year and a half of the project period.
Living Lab #3 "Wasteless greenhouse solutions" have successfully finalised object detection and categorization AI models. Learn more about the progress in this article.
Scientific article from the International Journal of Production Economics (2023)
Scientific article from the International Journal of Production Economics (2023)
Scientific article from Sustainability (2023)
All ZeroW innovations are supported to ensure the scalability of their solutions. This is done via regional stakeholder workshops where experts provide their input on the bottleneck dimensions of each pilot.
According to the cluster organization and ZeroW-project partner ASINCAR, prevention and reduction of food waste (FLW) is at the top of industrial agendas within the meat industry.
WP1 in the ZeroW project is working to develop a high-level economic model encompassing the food supply chain actors. Here you can read about the progress and the scope for the model..
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Download a short practice abstract with information about Assessing and monitoring the development of systemic food loss and waste innovations using a systemic innovation readiness level assessment (SIRL) tool.
In late June, ZeroW partners joined forces in Brussels to present and discuss the progress on the FLW innovation that is going on all over Europe as part of this project.
Lorraine Foley is a Lecturer in Environmental Management at Technological University Dublin and Principal Investigator for the Leaf No Waste project.
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Meet Carlos Hipolito, the visionary leader at the helm of Phenix Portugal, a company committed to combating food waste by bridging the gap between major contributors in the food supply chain and charitable organizations.
Managing Director of the Sustainable Innovation Technology Services Ltd company, Leonardo Piccinetti has had worked for more than 20 years to tackle the challenges of food loss and waste with policies and project initiatives.
Lorraine Foley is a Lecturer in Environmental Management at Technological University Dublin and Principal Investigator for the Leaf No Waste project.
Eliza Gambuzzi is a R&D Technician working with the HOOP project to vitalise Europe's urban bioeconomy. Here, she talks about how unavoidable food loss and waste is the basis for a sustainable circular bio economy.
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Check out this exciting project aiming to turn retail food waste into high-value micro-algae feed - using a pre-treatment process that turns retail waste into high-value micro-algae feed. pic.twitter.com/t254LV2HbG
The ZeroW project was launched to help the transition of current food systems
ZeroW is an EU project funded under the Green Deal call of the Horizon 2020 Programme (Grant Agreement no. 101036388). 46 partners across Europe are working together to find new and innovative ways to reduce food loss and waste.
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...one-third of food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted globally. The ZeroW project is now launching to help the transition of current food systems towards halving Food Loss & Waste (FLW) by 2030 and reaching a near-zero level by 2050.
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