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