About 20 percent of the food produced in the EU goes to waste!
Developing and testing innovations
ZeroW directly addresses the challenge of food loss and waste by developing and testing a synergetic mix of innovations in real life conditions, with the aim to deliver ambitious reductions at all stages of the food supply chain from pre-harvest to consumption.
Our aim is to achieve 25 percent FLW
By the end of the project, our target is to achieve 25 percent FLW on micro level, through the innovations developed and applied in our 9 Systemic Innovations Living Labs (SILLs). We apply systemic approach for delivering and evaluating all of the project innovations.
They are targeted to:
- Farmers: wasteless greenhouse solutions for pre-harvest and harvest stages; mobile food processing unit to valorise unsold production
- Processing: ugly food early identification, shelf-life assessment & alternative valorisation; data-driven poultry production process control & optimisation
- Packaging: biodegradable packaging and intelligent label informing retailers and consumers of remaining shelf life
- Retailers: store/warehouse food waste valorisation, and
- Consumers: informing & nudging consumers to make sustainable food choices to reduce household food waste and at the same time keep the high nutritional value of their diet.
EU-prosjekt
ZeroW is a €12 million EU project about systemic innovations for zero food waste. The European Commission will closely monitor the project's results and progress over the next four years in relation to future EU legislation on reduction of food waste.
