THE FOOD WASTE PILOT PROJECT “SAA SYÖDÄ!” – “LICENSE TO EAT”
Last modified: 2014-09-11
Abstract
The aims of the project were to find out whether sharing food with other consumers could reduce food waste to a point where it could make a difference in terms of sustainability and to find out how much and what kind of food people are ready to share with their neighbors. This pilot experiment was conducted during winter 2012-2013 in Helsinki, Finland. During the experiment we found out that accepting other people’s food was easy but sharing own food was more difficult.
Keywords
food waste; food sharing; housing company; household
References
Seppälä, J., Mäenpää, I., Koskela, S., Mattila, T., Nissinen, A., Katajajuuri, J-M., Härmä, T., Korhonen, M-R., Saarinen, M., Virtanen, Y. 2009. Suomen kansantalouden materiaalivirtojen ympäristövaikutusten arviointi ENVIMAT-mallilla (Assessment of the environmental impacts of material flows caused by the Finnish economy with the ENVIMAT model). The Finnish Environment 20/2009 (In Finnish, abstract in English). URL: www.ymparisto.fi/julkaisut
Silvennoinen, K., Koivupuro, H-K., Katajajuuri, J-M., Jalkanen, L., Reinikainen, A. 2012. Ruokahävikki suomalaisessa ruokaketjussa (Food Waste Volume and Composition in Finnish Food Chain). MTT Report 41 (In Finnish, abstract in English). URL: www.mtt.fi/mttraportti/pdf/mttraportti41.pdf
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