Strategies to reduce and manage Food waste in Central Europe
Abstract
The project addresses as main challenge the environmental situation in CE cities. At the same time the energy challenge is considered as unavoidable food waste can be used to produce biogas for energy production. Within the project also the challenges of globalisation and economic development as well as social cohesion are addressed e.g. in terms of food donation to foodbanks. The main objective of the project is to improve food waste management in selected CE cities by fostering food waste prevention and treatment and therefore reduce greenhouse gas emissions. By the main project results the knowledge and implementation capacity of relevant actors of the public and private sector along the whole food supply chain (including private persons, local authorities, gastronomes, retailers, teachers, waste management authorities…) to improve their activities in terms of food waste management will be raised to a high extend. A real reduction of food waste in different areas and optimisation in food waste treatment will be reached by the implementation of different pilot and demonstration actions the establishment of an appropriate transnational stakeholder platform and the implementation of a web based decision support tool tailored to different users to provide best practice guideline and training programmes. The focus on the Central Europe region is new and not least due to the common cultural and culinary roots reasonable. The innovative approach is not only to focus either on food waste prevention or waste treatment but to see the waste management as a whole following the waste hierarchy as described in the European waste framework directive. Because of close business ties within the CE region e.g. in the retail sector for NGOS a transnational cooperation and the implementation of a transnational multi-stakeholder network guarantees an added value compared to single projects.
keywords food waste Waste Prevention Life Cycle Assessment Pilot Actions
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Project staff
Gudrun Obersteiner
Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Gudrun Obersteiner
gudrun.obersteiner@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-81319
Project Leader
01.07.2016 - 30.09.2019
Sandra Luck
Dipl.-Ing. Sandra Luck
sandra.luck@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-81339
Project Staff
01.07.2016 - 30.09.2019
Elisabeth Schmied
Dipl.-Ing. Elisabeth Schmied
elisabeth.schmied@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-81331
Project Staff
01.07.2016 - 30.09.2019