Just food waste, with Family bag to take home restaurant leftovers – Contattolab

The National Day of Food Waste Prevention today reaches its third year. An initiative set up on February 5th of 2013 by the Ministry for a very specific purpose: to reflect on the enormous daily food waste. Did you know that in a year the entire planet is wasted food to 1,000 billion dollars, while more than 900 million people, especially in poor countries, die of hunger. A real paradox . Even Italy is not joking about the waste of pet food, they have a total of about 8.4 billion euros per year, an average of 650 grams of food per family for a total cost of 6.7 euro per week. The objective set by the initiative Italian, Sprecozero , is to try to recover at least 1 million tons of cibo.In France, following the ‘approval by the Parliament of some measures against waste food, was established the obligation for supermarkets to donate with a surface area greater than 400 square meters unsold food to charity, while the great restaurants deliver to its customers a container in which you can store the leftover food can take home . Inspired by cousins ​​across the Alps, the Ministry of Environment from the street on the occasion of this special occasion, the first phase of the project Family Bag , or a bag in which to place and transport the meals not terminated at the restaurant. An important project, which aims to raise awareness and educate people, food waste as well as being an insufferable attitude is harmful to the environment.

Waste alimentarie costs – The goal is contribute to the containment of environmental costs associated with food waste, the consumption of 250 trillion liters of water in the use of 1.4 billion hectares of arable land in the atmosphere and in the issue of 3.3 billion tons of CO2 each year, data are reported by FAO. Undersecretary at the Ministry of Environment says: “The Family Bag is the upgrade of the doggy bag, freeing design containers through this concept of the ghetto of our imagination and decency to request it after a meal. Do not waste must be the new lifestyle and apply for a Family Bag means behaving virtuously. Family Bag is inspired by the experience of Expo Milano 2015 and the encyclical “Praise You ‘” Papa Francesco “. Family bag is therefore the pilot project sponsored by the Ministry in collaboration with Unioncamere Veneto and the CONAI-Consortia Supply Chain System. For this first phase we have already been indicated 100 restaurants where the CONAI-Consortia Supply Chain System has delivered the Family Bag. The project that starts in Veneto will be gradually extended to other areas and Italian regions.