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Prevent and fight food waste 1

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• Foreword

• The scenario

• The Coop system

• The analysis

• Future scenarios

Summary

Foreword

Strategies to reduce food waste

The waste can not be limited only to correct behaviors: it takes organisation, logistics, ethical impulse, entrepreneurial creativity and economic recovery. This results in a more careful management of stores and transportation of goods; in reducing emissions, reducing waste and saving energy.

Food waste

The term «waste» means all of those products discarded from agri-food chain, which have lost commercial value but that can still be intended for human consumption. They are therefore perfectly usable, but not more salable, and without any possible alternative use, are intended to be discarded or disposed. They are "unsold but not salable”.

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The scenario: the Italian situation Food waste costs:

10 billion €/year

1,2 billion €/year

1,5 billion €/year

12,7 billion €/year

Losses in agriculture

Industrial waste

Distribution waste

TOTAL

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The scenario: legislative context

L. 155/03, Discipline of the distribution of food products for purposes of social solidarity

Also known as “Good Samaritan law”

Official Gazette n. 150 of 1st July 2003:

• NGOs can recover highly perishable unsold foods and distribute them to the needy.

• The responsibility on the conservation, transportation, storage and use of food, is transferred to NGOS as it compares non-profit associations to the final

consumer.

PROBLEM: The situation is not uniformed as there are different interpretations and applications of such law

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The Coop system: ongoing projects

PROJECTS:

Brutti ma Buoni

Buon Fine

Spreco Utile

STARTING DATE: from 2003 to 2011

STORES INVOLVED AS FOR 2012:• 98 hypermarkets • 442 supermarkets • 4 wharehouses

For a total of 544 points of sale

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The Coop system: some figures

TOTAL AMOUNT OF DONATIONS IN 2012 26.553.683 €of which 26.012.918 food

and 540.765 non food (6 Coops out of 10 donate non food)

Over 140.000 people attended in 2012.

NUMBER OF ASSOCIATIONS INVOLVED:

813 associations were involved at national and local level

SAVED WASTE 5.115.463 kilos* were donated in 2012, based on figures given by coops.

Considering 10% of post-donation waste, we saved 4.603.917 kg waste .

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The Coop system: instore process

Donations

PROMOTIONS Damaged products

SURPLUS

Products close to the expiry

date

Dumping

Waste Estimate of the staff

committment:• 1h/day for point of sale• 3 h for training + daily

management meeting

One of our cooperatives does not apply promotions

In 2013 Unicoop Firenze introduced the variable salary for the reduction

of the share of R&A

The Coop system: the process on the territory

WITH MEMBERS CONTRIBUTION

ASSOCIATIONS

Animal-rights

Religious

Voluntary work

Health and

society

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ESTIMATE OF STAFF COMMITTMENT:

270 h/year for each area/district

1 coop.va has almost all the points of involved

stores

3 coop.ve include warehouses and

distribution centers

FOSTER HOME

SHOPPING BOX

CANTEENS

DISTRIBUTION CENTERS

Over 140.000* people attended in

2012

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Donation

Waste

Waste

The Coop system: phases

Waste

Donation Donation

I PHASE III PHASEII PHASE

Promotions PromotionsPromotions

The Coop system: involment of active members

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All cooperatives involve active members in their projects.

The main fields of members involvement are:

• Research/ selection of the associations

• Relations with the associations

• Assessment of the associations’ activities

• Local initiatives promotion

Other fields of action are:

• Food collection

• Staff support

• Nutritional education

Projects analysis– A Coop study

The question was how the surplus generated is managed and in what ways compared to one of the three destinations identified:• donation to charities or food bank,• transferred or sold to processing companies for animal feed,• transferred or sold to disposal authorities

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The aim of the study is having an overall picture of the projects, the results and the main effects on the community regarding the management of surpluses through donation done by Coop cooperatives.

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The investigation and the cooperatives involved

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The analysis: methodology

Picture of donation projects

INTERVIEWSto delineate the

project and processes

DATA COLLECTIONTo quantify the product flows and complete the information framework

PROCESSING INDICATORS

To quantify variables

DATA ANALYSIS

Future scenarios: development of the model; three strategies

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COOP SYSTEM LOGISTICS “END-USER”

Uniformed data collection

System monitoring Best practices

+ EFFICIENCY- SURPLUS

+ DONATED PRODUCTS- WASTE + SOCIAL VALUE

Ufficial collection center

Coop collection center

Subsidiarity Network of subsidiarity

Social innovation

Future scenarios: value in use and development

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COOP FORMAT DESIGN

EUROPEAN PROJECT

SOCIAL ANALYSIS

UNIFORMITY AND LEGISLATIONS

EFFICIENCY AND INNOVATION

SOCIAL VALUE AND SOCIAL

INNOVATION

Integrated system which involves

the entiresupply chain

Collaboration ANCC/Coop Italyand Euro Coopfor EXPO 2015

Measure the social value

generated on the territory

Dissemination of good practices, model outreach

Increase what can be recovered by acting on

surpluses and waste

New models,Innovative start-ups