Economics of Food Waste

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

A roadmap to reduce food waste in Europe

franka.paetzke — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 10:18:25 +0000

Report

This report adopts a Bayesian hierarchical mixed-effects modelling approach, based on previous REFRESH work, to quantify the relationships between socioeconomic and demographic indicators and household food waste and the potential impact of an external intervention on food waste.

A pan-European simulation of selected interventions

franka.paetzke — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 10:14:25 +0000

Report

This report consists in a series of reports developing estimates for household food waste levels under four different scenarios for each European country and for the whole EU28.

Pan-European scenarios of food waste levels

franka.paetzke — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 10:13:50 +0000

Report

This report collects 29 single food waste scenarios (28 country scenarios and a prediction scenario related to the whole EU-28), describing the amounts of food wasted every year by an average household and are based on predictions of food waste levels conducted considering the current values of different socioeconomic and demographic factors.

REFRESH España Flyer

franka.paetzke — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 13:04:40 +0000

Flyer

Three-way foldable flyer introducing the REFRESH Spanish Pilot Working Platform.

REFRESH external outreach report

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

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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

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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

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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.

Food waste high value exploitation hypothesis testing

franka.paetzke — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 13:01:46 +0000

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Valorising food waste by extracting high value food ingredients such as bioactives is a preferable alternative to traditional valorisation approaches, such as animal feed. This report investigates the potential benefits and drawbacks, as well as favorable conditions for such processes through a number of case studies, using tomato side streams as an example.

Identification of food waste conversion barriers

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

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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.

Viability of bio-based chemicals from food waste

franka.paetzke — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 08:29:13 +0000

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In many countries, a considerable proportion of wasted food and food residues still ends up as mixed putrescible waste which contains a high-water content and which may vary considerably both regionally and seasonally. Market assessments show domination of crop-based commodity feedstocks such as maize or corn and plant-based lipids rather than food chain wastes. The authors investigate the conversion of mixed post-consumer organic putrescible food waste materials into fuels and chemicals.

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.