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Prevent and fight food waste 1
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• Foreword
• The scenario
• The Coop system
• The analysis
• Future scenarios
Summary
Foreword
Strategies to reduce food waste
The waste can not be limited only to correct behaviors: it takes organisation, logistics, ethical impulse, entrepreneurial creativity and economic recovery. This results in a more careful management of stores and transportation of goods; in reducing emissions, reducing waste and saving energy.
Food waste
The term «waste» means all of those products discarded from agri-food chain, which have lost commercial value but that can still be intended for human consumption. They are therefore perfectly usable, but not more salable, and without any possible alternative use, are intended to be discarded or disposed. They are "unsold but not salable”.
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The scenario: the Italian situation Food waste costs:
10 billion €/year
1,2 billion €/year
1,5 billion €/year
12,7 billion €/year
Losses in agriculture
Industrial waste
Distribution waste
TOTAL
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The scenario: legislative context
L. 155/03, Discipline of the distribution of food products for purposes of social solidarity
Also known as “Good Samaritan law”
Official Gazette n. 150 of 1st July 2003:
• NGOs can recover highly perishable unsold foods and distribute them to the needy.
• The responsibility on the conservation, transportation, storage and use of food, is transferred to NGOS as it compares non-profit associations to the final
consumer.
PROBLEM: The situation is not uniformed as there are different interpretations and applications of such law
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The Coop system: ongoing projects
PROJECTS:
Brutti ma Buoni
Buon Fine
Spreco Utile
STARTING DATE: from 2003 to 2011
STORES INVOLVED AS FOR 2012:• 98 hypermarkets • 442 supermarkets • 4 wharehouses
For a total of 544 points of sale
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The Coop system: some figures
TOTAL AMOUNT OF DONATIONS IN 2012 26.553.683 €of which 26.012.918 food
and 540.765 non food (6 Coops out of 10 donate non food)
Over 140.000 people attended in 2012.
NUMBER OF ASSOCIATIONS INVOLVED:
813 associations were involved at national and local level
SAVED WASTE 5.115.463 kilos* were donated in 2012, based on figures given by coops.
Considering 10% of post-donation waste, we saved 4.603.917 kg waste .
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The Coop system: instore process
Donations
PROMOTIONS Damaged products
SURPLUS
Products close to the expiry
date
Dumping
Waste Estimate of the staff
committment:• 1h/day for point of sale• 3 h for training + daily
management meeting
One of our cooperatives does not apply promotions
In 2013 Unicoop Firenze introduced the variable salary for the reduction
of the share of R&A
The Coop system: the process on the territory
WITH MEMBERS CONTRIBUTION
ASSOCIATIONS
Animal-rights
Religious
Voluntary work
Health and
society
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ESTIMATE OF STAFF COMMITTMENT:
270 h/year for each area/district
1 coop.va has almost all the points of involved
stores
3 coop.ve include warehouses and
distribution centers
FOSTER HOME
SHOPPING BOX
CANTEENS
DISTRIBUTION CENTERS
Over 140.000* people attended in
2012
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Donation
Waste
Waste
The Coop system: phases
Waste
Donation Donation
I PHASE III PHASEII PHASE
Promotions PromotionsPromotions
The Coop system: involment of active members
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All cooperatives involve active members in their projects.
The main fields of members involvement are:
• Research/ selection of the associations
• Relations with the associations
• Assessment of the associations’ activities
• Local initiatives promotion
Other fields of action are:
• Food collection
• Staff support
• Nutritional education
Projects analysis– A Coop study
The question was how the surplus generated is managed and in what ways compared to one of the three destinations identified:• donation to charities or food bank,• transferred or sold to processing companies for animal feed,• transferred or sold to disposal authorities
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The aim of the study is having an overall picture of the projects, the results and the main effects on the community regarding the management of surpluses through donation done by Coop cooperatives.
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The investigation and the cooperatives involved
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The analysis: methodology
Picture of donation projects
INTERVIEWSto delineate the
project and processes
DATA COLLECTIONTo quantify the product flows and complete the information framework
PROCESSING INDICATORS
To quantify variables
DATA ANALYSIS
Future scenarios: development of the model; three strategies
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COOP SYSTEM LOGISTICS “END-USER”
Uniformed data collection
System monitoring Best practices
+ EFFICIENCY- SURPLUS
+ DONATED PRODUCTS- WASTE + SOCIAL VALUE
Ufficial collection center
Coop collection center
Subsidiarity Network of subsidiarity
Social innovation
Future scenarios: value in use and development
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COOP FORMAT DESIGN
EUROPEAN PROJECT
SOCIAL ANALYSIS
UNIFORMITY AND LEGISLATIONS
EFFICIENCY AND INNOVATION
SOCIAL VALUE AND SOCIAL
INNOVATION
Integrated system which involves
the entiresupply chain
Collaboration ANCC/Coop Italyand Euro Coopfor EXPO 2015
Measure the social value
generated on the territory
Dissemination of good practices, model outreach
Increase what can be recovered by acting on
surpluses and waste
New models,Innovative start-ups