info session – appetite for waste erasmus+ youth exchange in kaunas
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Info Session – Appetite for Waste
Erasmus+ youth exchange in Kaunas
Contents
Sample Knowledge assessment
Food waste Laws/regulations Packaging Initiatives
Conclusions Action groups
Sample (36 participants)
Median age: 22.5
Male/female ratio: 52% males against 48% females
Self-grade for current knowledge: 5.07
Food waste
Every food product that is grown/produced but not
eaten
Not all food is accepted for sale
Food grown (e.g. apples) may not have the standard shape, colour, etc.Therefore food producers make more food
than necessary (to compensate for the unaccepted)
Reasons mentioned by you – right Reasons mentioned by you - wrong
Supermarkets do not sell all the shelved food
Such food (e.g. after due date) is usually & continuously thrown out as garbage
Some may be given to charities (e.g. Food Bank)
Your mention – right Your mention - wrong
Food also wasted pretty much everywhere:
At restaurants, canteens, bakeries, specialised shops,
markets, family tables, BBQs & so on and so forth
How many of you were close?
Wasted
40%
Eaten60%
Food not eaten in the US
Wasted
23%
Eaten77%
Your opinion (Average)
How to save more food (4 Rs)?
1. Reduce food waste
2. Recycle wasted food
3. Reuse the leftovers
4. Redistribute unused food
How to do that?
Laws / regulations
Banning supermarkets destroying unsold food, instead obliging them to give it to charities Passed in France (May, 2015)
Giving support for supermarkets, other businesses and charities involved in food saving
Your mentions
Special food packaging
a label which is attached to food packaging and changes shape when the produce is no longer good
Much more reliable than the due date
Special packaging
Food packaging discouraging food waste (alike cigarette pack labels) ‘Stop food waste’, etc.
Your mentions
Other initiatives
Restaurants re-cooking used food (and then selling without a price so that homeless can eat and regular customer pay as much as they want)
Food Bank, similar charities - redistributing unwanted food to the poor
Online marketing campaigns, videos – educating people & discouraging food waste
Your mentions
Conclusions
Food waste is a huge problem, however there are solutions
Our knowledge is far from absolute
Therefore we are going to work to: increase our expertise on the topic
Find and propose ideas/solutions
Action groups (from day 1)
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Group 4
Group 5
Group 6
Your presentations
Day 4 Wednesday (August 5th) Latvia
Romania
Croatia
Day 5 Thursday (August 6th) Lithuania
Italy
Poland
Task (20 min)
In the action groups choose one of the 4 R’s (one R may be chosen at most twice):
i. Reducing food waste
ii. Recycling wasted food
iii. Reusing the leftovers
iv. Redistributing unused food
1. Think what grand initiative/strategy would encourage people to do so (your chosen R)?
2. What would be the benefits if people were doing so?
3. Draw everything on a big sheet of paper. There are no limits this time – so be creative