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.
MEET ZEROW-HEROES
MEET ZEROW-HEROESMeet our 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.
Here you can meet a few of them.
Explore the stories behind about our ZeroW-Heroes and be inspired by their efforts to reduce food loss and waste on every scale.
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.
Shai Rilov
Shai has dedicated the last 8 years to making the issue of food waste accessible and delicious - through culinary and educational activities, including founding Israel's first social restaurant based on rescued food!
Selina Juul
Selina Juul is one of the world’s leading experts on food waste and Chairman of the Board and Founder of Stop Wasting Food movement in Denmark.
About 20% of the food produced in the EU goes to waste.
ZeroW directly addresses the challenge of food loss and waste (FLW) by developing and testing a synergetic mix of innovations in real life conditions.
The aim is to deliver ambitious reductions at all stages of the food supply chain from post-harvest to consumption.
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Latest news
ZeroW Project Workshop in Spain
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 Caña.
ZeroW progress during the first 18 months of the project delivery
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.