{"id":10074,"date":"2024-03-21T21:03:28","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T19:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maresmecircular.cat\/?p=10074"},"modified":"2024-03-21T21:03:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T19:03:28","slug":"maresme-circular-publishes-a-manual-to-help-restaurants-and-school-canteens-prevent-food-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maresmecircular.cat\/en\/consortium\/maresme-circular-publishes-a-manual-to-help-restaurants-and-school-canteens-prevent-food-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"Maresme Circular publishes a manual to help restaurants and school canteens prevent food waste"},"content":{"rendered":"
Maresme Circular<\/strong> has published the ‘Manual for the prevention of food waste in the catering sector and school canteens<\/strong>‘, a document that provides these sectors with resources and information so that they can reduce the impact of food waste.<\/p>\n The initiative is part of the actions that Maresme Circular, a project of the Maresme Waste Consortium<\/strong>, is carrying out with Rezero<\/strong> to prevent food waste in the region and is part of the Maresme Waste Prevention Plan<\/strong>, which aims to reduce waste generation by 26.4%<\/strong> by 2027, compared to 2010.<\/p>\n Beginning from the first half of this year, a regulation will come into force which states that restaurants with more than 10 workers will be obliged to have a plan against food waste<\/strong>. As a response to this, the manual aims to be a tool <\/strong>at the service of restaurants and school canteens which, as well as raising awareness<\/strong> of the importance of valuing food, details the current regulatory framework<\/strong> and provides examples of good practice<\/strong> to avoid waste.<\/p>\n The document was presented in Matar\u00f3 this Tuesday at the FAGEM<\/strong> (Maresme Federation of Business Associations and Guilds), at a training day aimed at the catering sector and organised jointly with the Maresme<\/strong> Consortium for the Promotion of Tourism <\/strong>and the Matar\u00f3 and Maresme Hotel, Catering and Tourism Guild<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Laia Carulla de Rezero presenting the ‘Manual for the prevention of food waste in the catering sector and school canteens’<\/p><\/div>\n According to a recent Eurostat study, 127 kilos of food <\/strong>were wasted per inhabitant in 2020, of which 55%<\/strong> corresponds to waste in households and the remaining 45%<\/strong> to the entire production chain.<\/p>\n In Catalonia, more than 260,000 tonnes of food<\/strong> are wasted annually in households, retail shops and catering establishments, the equivalent of 35 kilos<\/strong> of food per person per year, according to 2012 data from the Catalan Waste Agency<\/strong>.<\/p>\n As part of the Maresme Waste Prevention Plan, the Waste Consortium is carrying out other actions to prevent food waste, such as the creation of a food reuse circuit<\/strong> in El Masnou, reuse cooking workshops<\/strong> in different municipalities in the region, a recipe competition<\/strong> and training sessions<\/strong> for restaurants and school canteens.<\/p>\n The manual provides resources and information to the catering sector and school canteens so that they can implement measures to prevent food waste \/ Marga Cruz<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The document has been produced with Rezero, within the framework of the Maresme Waste Prevention Plan, which aims to reduce waste generation in the region by 26.4% FAGEM (Maresme Federation of Business Associations and Guilds) hosted the presentation of the manual at a training day for the catering sector organised jointly with the Maresme Consortium…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10061,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n<\/p>\n
More than 260,000 tonnes of food are wasted in Catalonia every year<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Other actions against food waste<\/strong><\/h3>\n