The REFRESH project focused on food waste reduction by developing strategies for reducing waste across the entire food chain, including households, retailers, and processors. The project brought together 26 partners from 12 countries and ran from 2015 to 2019. REFRESH supported public campaigns to raise awareness of food waste and promoted innovative solutions like food redistribution, encouraging collaborations among food system actors.
The seven working areas of REFRESH included:
- Understanding consumer behaviour
- Development of voluntary agreements in 4 Member States
- EU policy options to reduce food loss and food waste
- Understanding food waste through behavioural economics
- Environmental and cost dimensions of food waste
- Valorisation options of waste streams and co-products
- Increasing impact through communication activities
REFRESH was funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme.
