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03 August 2016 Food waste costs Italy 12.5 billion which are lost 54 percent to consumption, 21 percent to catering, 15 percent to commercial distribution, 8 percent to agriculture and for 2 per cent in the transformation. This is what Coldiretti says in positively commenting on the new law against food waste to help achieve the goal of reducing food waste in Italy by one million tons in 2016.
A target that can also be reached thanks to the greater sensitivity with 53% of Italians who believe that the containment of food waste depends above all on the choices of consumers with 46% who maintain that they can be fought with better planning of spending. However, the situation remains serious and on average every Italian threw 76 kilos of food products in the garbage can during the year.
The new law strengthens the work of contrast by increasing consumer awareness of eating habits, simplifies donations for companies and for the first time also plays a leading role for agriculture, through direct donations to the poor.
After the French Parliament also definitively approved on 3 February a series of measures against food waste, the Italian initiative is consistent with the objectives of the European Union where, according to the European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Vytenis Andriukaitis, food waste is estimated to amount to about 100 million tons per year. All the countries of the Union have signed up to the commitment of the new UN sustainable development target, which plans to halve food waste by 2030, in every step of the supply chain, from field to table.