Retail / Trade

REFRESH Final Results Brochure

franka.paetzke — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:48:09 +0000

Flyer

The REFRESH final results brochure provides an overview of the work undertaken within the project including key insights and links to the results that are available online.

REFRESH Video: Research against food waste

franka.paetzke — Sun, 23 Feb 2020 16:32:02 +0000

Video

In 2019, REFRESH has come to an end. Since 2015, the 26 project partners from across Europe and China have made considerable progress in tackling food losses and food waste along production and supply chains with an integrated approach towards a more sustainable and responsible food system. This video summarises the main activities and findings of the project.

REFRESH Video: National platforms to fight food waste

franka.paetzke — Sun, 23 Feb 2020 15:02:49 +0000

Video

REFRESH Video: Reducing consumer food waste

franka.paetzke — Sun, 23 Feb 2020 14:51:53 +0000

Video

Policy recommendations to improve food waste prevention and valorisation in the EU

franka.paetzke — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 15:28:14 +0000

Report

This report presents a series of policy recommendations based on research conducted within REFRESH to reduce food waste along the whole supply chain, and improve the management of surplus food and food waste flows at the European level.

REFRESH external outreach report

franka.paetzke — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:36:23 +0000

Report

This report analyses two specific activities within REFRESH: First, the dissemination of the Framework for Action (“Blueprint”) that helps national governments to build Voluntary Agreements with the relevant stakeholders in the sector to reduce food loss and waste and second, work with Standardisation Bodies, specifically barcode standards used by retailers.

Final report on dissemination and exploitation of REFRESH results

franka.paetzke — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:36:06 +0000

Report

This report provides a detailed overview of REFRESH’s activities as well as an assessment of their outreach and impact. It also reflects on the lessons learned of REFRESH’s communication activities, including barriers and success formats.

Reduce and Re-use: Studying retailers’ food waste from an Operations Research perspective

franka.paetzke — Fri, 27 Sep 2019 11:55:03 +0000

Report

In this PhD thesis several interventions are analyzed in order to reduce the food waste of retailers, or to re-use food leftovers. The interventions tested are: Discounting nearly expired products, a dynamic shelf life, the incorporation of substitution behavior in the ordering process of the retailer and the re-use of leftovers by a soup kitchen. All interventions show potential to reduce food waste.

Scale up models and processes

franka.paetzke — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 08:57:48 +0000

Report

It can be difficult for businesses to identify in which conditions a valorization option is economically feasible. Using a case study on a chicory processing by-product, this report presents a methodology for a well-underpinned assessment of practical economic feasibility.

Identification of food waste conversion barriers

franka.paetzke — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 10:15:14 +0000

Report

This report identifies how external conditions (legislative, environmental, social and economic) can influence development of food waste conversion options, specifically through conversion of currently wasted food to animal feed.

Avoiding food waste through feeding surplus food to omnivorous non-ruminant livestock

franka.paetzke — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 09:07:22 +0000

Policy Brief

This policy brief outlines the environmental, economic and safety considerations of reforming EU law to enable surplus food containing meat to be fed to omnivorous non-ruminant livestock like pigs, in order to drive food waste valorisation through animal feed.

Video message from EU Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis

ILM — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 09:05:45 +0000

With the close of REFRESH in June 2019 the EU Health and Food Safety Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis congratulates to the success of an outstanding research project. In a video message, he says that with its concrete actions and tools developed, REFRESH results will continue to guide EU policy for food waste reduction. The Commissioner himself was involved in many events and activities of the project. In particular, Commissioner Andriukaitis underlines the value of REFRESH insights on how to better understand and reduce consumer food waste and the voluntary agreements that have been established in four EU countries and that will guide the way for more public private partnerships.

Evaluation of Framework for Action Pilots

franka.paetzke — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 14:11:43 +0000

Report

One aspect of REFRESH aimed to design and pilot food waste voluntary agreements (VAs) across EU member states and subsequently assess their potential for wider adoption. In the context of REFRESH, a piloted VA is described as a “Framework for Action” (FA). In total, four countries across Europe piloted FAs: Netherlands, Spain, Germany and Hungary. In this report the authors evaluate the piloted FAs to assess whether they had been successful, show their potential impact and highlight the circumstances in which they are likely to be more successful if replicated.

Evaluation Framework for Action Innovation projects

franka.paetzke — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 14:43:11 +0000

Report

A suite of case studies from across the EU, demonstrating actions to reduce food losses and waste.

LCA & LCC of food waste case studies

franka.paetzke — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 12:44:04 +0000

Report

This report presents the results from the life cycle assessment (LCA) and life cycle costing (LCC) of two food waste prevention and upgrading case studies. The first focused on the heat treatment of manufacturing, retail, and catering food surplus so that it could be used as pig feed in UK and France. The second focused on the prevention of peach and nectarine (PN) spoilage and overproduction along the supply chain, considering Italian and Spanish production sold by one UK wholesaler.