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Written by: Andrea Adelmo Della Penna From: WIISE Aqua De Mâ is an Italian company operating in the aquaculture sector, being the main species farmed sea bream and sea bass. This company hosted the testing of one of the tools developed in WASTELESS for measuring and monitoring Food Loss and Waste, the blockchain-based electronic registry developed by […]

By Luminita Ciolacu and Sofia Reis From: ISEKI-Food Association The Sustainable Food Systems Innovation (SFSI) platform recently hosted its first online member’s event, offering a dynamic look into the future of knowledge sharing platforms at European level. If you missed the live session, the full recording is now available to watch — and it’s well

Written by Atilla Kunszabó From University Veterinary Medicine Budapest (UVMB) On 14 May, the WASTELESS project brought together more than 60 participants for a public event focused on the value proposition, technology adoption, and implementation of innovative tools for food loss and waste measurement. Attendees represented a diverse range of professional organizations, including research institutions,

Written by: Clara Olave Sobrón From: CNTA Last year, the WASTELESS project focused on testing innovative tools and methodologies developed designed to tackle key challenges in the food industry. In previous articles, we explored, how Apincampo implemented tools to measure food loss and waste in their farm, how Salumificio Mottolini Srl applied blockchain technology within

Written by: Andrea Adelmo Della Penna From: WIISE The WASTELESS case studies are over, but we would like to present the opinions of some of the companies that participated in the testing of the digital tools and innovative methodologies developed by the project to measure and monitor the generation of food waste throughout the supply

Written by: Tamás Szallabek From: VIMOSZ Last year VIMOSZ spent most of its time testing the WASTELESS tools and methodologies in different environments along the food supply chain. Previously we wrote about our work in the food industry sector testing the WASTELESS Blockchain technology in Italy. In the following article in the series VIMOSZ’s experience will be

December 11th, 2024 Summary by: Carole Liechti and Jeanine Ammann From: Agroscope In 2022, around 1.05 billion tons of food were wasted globally at consumer level, despite the fact that food waste is preventable (United Nations Environment Programme, 2024). Therefore, it is crucial to implement effective measures to tackle food waste at the consumer level and

Written by: Ylva Haglund From: Scottish Wholesale Association The title of this blog could also be ‘Scottish wholesaler cuts food waste by 33%’, because that is what happened when Mark Murphy Dole, a leading fresh produce wholesaler, worked with the Scottish Wholesale Association and Zero Waste Scotland, Scotland’s circular economy public body, to tackle food

Written by: Zhuang Qian, Wu Chen From: SDU Life Cycle Engineering, Department of Green Technology, University of Southern Denmark, 5230 Odense, Denmark Food Loss and Waste (FLW) challenges the global commitment to sustainably transforming food systems (EU, 2020; FAO, 2019). As a major inefficiency within food supply chain, FLW remains insufficiently understood, making it difficult

Written by: Tamás Szallabek From: VIMOSZ The International Food Waste Coalition (IFWC) is a non-profit organisation dedicated to addressing food waste in the European contract catering sector. Formed with a vision aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 12.3—to halve global food waste by 2030—the coalition brings together major players mostly from the contract catering sector