LOWINFOOD
Le projet européen a participé à la conférence Retaste à Archanes, Crète, Grèce, le 26 septembre 2024
Le projet LOWINFOOD, auquel l'AREFLH participe, vise à réduire les pertes et le gaspillage alimentaires en Europe grâce à des solutions innovantes appliquées tout au long de la chaîne de valeur. Lors de la conférence Retaste, en Crète, le 26 septembre 2024, l’Université de Tuscia a présenté les résultats d’une étude sur les habitudes des consommateurs utilisant des doggy bags après un repas au restaurant.
Cette étude, basée sur des données collectées via l’application Regusto, a suivi et mesuré la consommation des restes alimentaires ramenés à domicile grâce à un QR code et des questionnaires. Les résultats, obtenus montrent que les doggy bags sont des outils efficaces pour lutter contre le gaspillage alimentaire, mais des recherches supplémentaires sont nécessaires pour mieux comprendre les liens entre consommation à domicile et gaspillage post-consommation.
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AREFLH is a partner of LOWINFOOD, a project that focuses on “Multi-actor design of low-waste food value chains through the demonstration of innovative solutions to reduce food loss and waste”. LOWINFOOD supports the reduction of the loss and waste in the European Union by demonstrating innovative solutions following a multi-actor approach along the entire value chain.
It is at the Retaste Conference in Archanes, Crete, Greece, on 26th September 2024, that the University of Tuscia presented the results of the study carried out in the framework of LOWINFOOD about the post-consumption habits of consumers who bring leftovers home.
This study was carried out by leveraging primary data from the Regusto technological innovation, an innovative application that allowed measuring and tracking the actual consumption of acquired food at home, both the surplus food sold by restaurants to consumers and leftovers taken away by consumers. A QR code attached to the Regusto bag that customers take home with leftovers or the ordered takeaway meal contained a questionnaire that customers filled out to report the amount of food consumed and wasted.
Based on the experience of 574 respondents, the results showed an 88.2% reduction in food waste, confirming the potential of food-sharing platforms and the use of doggy bags in reducing food waste. However, post-consumer food waste differed between leftover waste (23.6%) and takeaway food waste (11.4%).
Food-sharing platforms and the practice of taking home leftovers after dining out are recognized as viable approaches to mitigating the phenomenon of reducing food loss and waste. However, a critical gap persists as academic studies usually do not systematically assess the actual consumption of this food at home and its correlation with post-consumption waste.
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This project receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No.101000439
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