Coordinator: UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAIS VASCO -Spain
Partners:
- INNOVATION HIVE- Greece
- INCOMMON NON PROFIT CIVIL LAW COMPANY-Greece
- Mednarodni institut za implementacijo trajnostnega razvoja, Maribor-Slovenia
- Exeo Lab Srl-Italy
- Innomate Ltd.-Türkiye
- ASOCIATIA GRUPUL DE ACTIUNE LOCALANAPOCA POROLISSUM-Romania
Start Date: 01/10/2022
End Date: 30/09/2024
Organic waste, (50% of which is food waste), is a major contributor to environmental problems, such as pollution, landfilling and climate change. Each EU citizen creates approx. 113kg of food waste per year and approx. 222kg of organic waste (Zero Waste Europe, 2020). In addition, in the EU alone, around 88 million tonnes of food are wasted annually. (EC, 2021).On a global scale, food waste accounts for approximately 8% of the total anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions (UNEP,2021). COM aims to contribute the continual creation of this huge amount of waste which we believe can be addressed through behavior change by citizens (via education) at home, in school and in every day life. The project is motivated not only by the data, but by the understanding that this huge sector of environmental damage can be reduced by the public. We are informed by these statistics and the project is shaped by the fact that through education,these figures can not only be greatly reduced, but also start a wider conversation about ecological issues and citizen action
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