PA13 Food Waste Prevention in households
STREFOWA project works on various activities to demonstrate that it is possible to prevent and manage food waste. On the topic of reducing food waste, with a particular reference to domestic food waste in the Rimini area, the Province of Rimini has taken a sample of families as a significant reference point.
These families were questioned on their eating habits and how they prepare and eat meals, in order to reduce food waste or if it is possible to allow the use of what is not consumed within the family, for reasons of improper use of the food resources, by third parties (disadvantaged people or groups of identified communities).
LAST MINUTE MARKET and SWG were commissioned an initial survey through the administration of an online questionnaire. In this way, we obtained macro-data on food waste in families throughout the territory of the Province. At a later stage, a sample of 32 families was chosen, through the network of the Province of Rimini, of #Emporio Rimini (a group of organizations and associations very attentive to the issue of food waste), the Voluntary Associations and officials of the Municipality of Rimini.
#EmporioRimini also proposes cultural initiatives about alimentary waste. In this way we chose a sample of different families according to age, composition and income. To this sample of families, the same questionnaire was administered personally (as an interview) in order to create a direct relationship, raise awareness of the issue and understand the wrong habits that generate waste in order to identify good practice that could be as effective as possible.
These families were questioned on their eating habits and how they prepare and eat meals, in order to reduce food waste or if it is possible to allow the use of what is not consumed within the family, for reasons of improper use of the food resources, by third parties (disadvantaged people or groups of identified communities).
LAST MINUTE MARKET and SWG were commissioned an initial survey through the administration of an online questionnaire. In this way, we obtained macro-data on food waste in families throughout the territory of the Province. At a later stage, a sample of 32 families was chosen, through the network of the Province of Rimini, of #Emporio Rimini (a group of organizations and associations very attentive to the issue of food waste), the Voluntary Associations and officials of the Municipality of Rimini.
#EmporioRimini also proposes cultural initiatives about alimentary waste. In this way we chose a sample of different families according to age, composition and income. To this sample of families, the same questionnaire was administered personally (as an interview) in order to create a direct relationship, raise awareness of the issue and understand the wrong habits that generate waste in order to identify good practice that could be as effective as possible.
The following steps:
In order to understand which measure or awareness campaign to promote and best fit the chosen family sample, we carried out a search for local, national and European best practices on the issue of food waste prevention. After analysing the collected questionnaires, some good practices were selected and the sample of families was asked to test them for about two weeks. In the end, the sample of families was asked to quantify the reduction of food waste obtained by applying the suggested good practices.
The objectives of the project were described to the families that were invited to surf the STREFOWA website. In addition, they were informed about the law against food waste and that there are some precautions and good practices to reduce food waste at home. Finally, the search for good practices at national and European level allowed us to select some of them in order to be able to test them in the Province, either through the sample of identified families, or through the promotion within the Province network by sending informative emails to sensitize the territory in favour of food waste reduction.
- Activity 1. Study of local and supra-local good practices (Italian and European): desk activities (research type);
- Activity 2. Cognitive survey on food waste referred to the dynamics that were recorded in the families of Rimini. This activity includes the following sub-actions:
- A.2.1 drawing up a questionnaire and information collection by administering specific surveys online in the whole Province of Rimini through LAST MINUTE MARKET and SWG;
- A.2.2 identification of a sample of families through the existing networks of the proposer and, in particular, in addition to #EmporioRimini, the Voluntary Associations and the Municipality of Rimini and responses collected by administering face to face specific surveys through the reference points of the Province of Rimini.
- A.2.3 critical analysis of the results obtained;
- Activity 3. Definition of an experimental procedure or tailored awareness campaigns to reduce food waste and testing the procedure in the sample of families through the existing networks and in the territory by sending informative emails.
In order to understand which measure or awareness campaign to promote and best fit the chosen family sample, we carried out a search for local, national and European best practices on the issue of food waste prevention. After analysing the collected questionnaires, some good practices were selected and the sample of families was asked to test them for about two weeks. In the end, the sample of families was asked to quantify the reduction of food waste obtained by applying the suggested good practices.
The objectives of the project were described to the families that were invited to surf the STREFOWA website. In addition, they were informed about the law against food waste and that there are some precautions and good practices to reduce food waste at home. Finally, the search for good practices at national and European level allowed us to select some of them in order to be able to test them in the Province, either through the sample of identified families, or through the promotion within the Province network by sending informative emails to sensitize the territory in favour of food waste reduction.
