Ugly fruit? On my plate, please!
SOLIDARITY, SOCIAL
INCLUSION and NO WASTE – “Raccolta dell’invenduto”
“Invenduto” –
the non-sold weekly portions of vegetables and fruits thrown away every week in
the local markets of Italy – was reborn in 2012, when Associazione Eufemia
started collecting it directly from the market sellers, with the involvement of
the local community.
3 years later,
the project is now known in Torino (Italy) as “Pane in Comune”. Eufemia is
working in 3 different markets and involving more than 30 families that meet
every Saturday afternoon in the collection of goods, before the closing of the
markets.
Why is this a
sustainable project?
“Pane in Comune”
puts different aspects together: it aims to decrease local food waste by
involving people in need of economical support from the local community. The
key is that the different families and individuals take an active role in the
process and they manage a big part of it in autonomy. They become managers of a
fundamental resource for all, that is food and food turns into its primary
sense of common good.
By doing
together, new relations of solidarity and friendship grow, new networks are
developed and a new space of social encounter is found and nourished on a
weekly basis.
The project has
been replicated in Aiud (Romania) by a participant of Associazione
Eufemia Erasmus+ project “Think Global, Act Local” that was awarded the winning
prize of REFRESH “Food
Waste” competition, an EU research project (http://eu-refresh.org/).
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