Innovations for Zero Food Loss & Waste
Why ZeroW?
Climate change. Food insecurity. A fragile global food system. All these challenges are worsened by food loss and waste.
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Reducing FLW through real-life systemic innovation labs
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More about ZeroFLW Business EcosystemMeet ZeroW-Heroes
The world is full of people who makes a difference in the fight against FLW every day. And we think they all deserve to be celebrated. Meet them here and hear their stories.
Leonardo Piccinetti
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
Lorraine Foley is a Lecturer in Environmental Management at Technological University Dublin and Principal Investigator for the Leaf No Waste project.
Eliza Gambuzzi
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.
Oltion Shena
ZeroW-Hero Oltion Shena is the founder of Feeding Albania, a community of organisations that fights poverty and hunger in Albania through e.g. food banks and redirecting food to people in need.
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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
...towards halving Food Loss & Waste (FLW) by 2030 and reaching a near-zero level by 2050.
Who is behind?
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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