Pilot actions to reduce food waste in Central Europe

Pilot actions are experiments to try out new methods to reduce and manage food waste. The learnings from the pilot actions will be included in the guidelines, recommendations and training materials.  Within this STREFOWA project 16 pilot actions for relevant sectors of urban food chain are implemented for: production of food, retail preparation of food, food donation and collection and treatment. 13 of those 16 pilot actions deal with reduction of food waste and 3 are on management of food waste. The pilot actions are located in the 5 participating countries: Austria, Hungary, Poland, Italy and the Czech Republic. 

Our Pilot actions experiment to: 

• raise awareness in schools and amongst consumers (Austria, Czech Republic, Italy)
• prevent food waste through donations and re-use (Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Italy, Austria)
• optimize separate collection of food waste (Poland, Austria, Italy)​

16 STREFOWA Pilot Actions to reduce and manage food waste better 

1. Food Waste Prevention in Primary Production: Gleaning Potential in Austria?
2. Karakter Ernte: Reuse of surplus vegetables in restaurants in Austria
3. Raise awareness for food waste in Hungary
4. Increase Food Donations in Poland
5. Increase donations at Food Banks to #reducefoodwaste in the Czech Republic
6. ​Food donation from Hospitals to the territory (Italy)
7. Food waste prevention in tourism and food preparation (IT)
8. Food waste prevention in tourism and food preparation in Austria
9. Food Waste Prevention in Viennese Schools (AUT)
10. Reduce food waste in schools in the Czech Republic
11. Pilot activities with Primary Schools in Italy
12. Food Waste Prevention in households in Austria
13. Food Waste Prevention in households in Italy
14. Separation of food waste from residual waste ​
15. Optimisation of separate food waste collection in Rimini
16. Optimization of separate food waste collection in Poland