Pont Alimentari

Pont Alimentari offers a diagnosis of food that is thrown away in the retail food distribution, catering and restaurant sectors and proposes awareness raising activities for the reduction of food waste and suggestions for improvement; and the creation of an interactive network (bridge) between donor companies and the receiving entities that support vulnerable groups in Barcelona.
In parallel, awareness-raising actions are carried out, aimed both at the customers, companies’ staffs and at the general public with the goal of fostering a change of behaviour and attitude towards food waste. In the hospital sector, where a significant amount of food waste is generated,the initiative has been launched in the German Trias i Pujol Hospital, the first hospital in Catalonia to channel its food surplus to social entities.
Imaginative solutions have been set up to reduce the food waste and losses generated by the social entities themselves as part of their operations. For instance, Pont Alimentari suggested cooking dry pulses from donations before redistributing them to beneficiaries, given that some cannot cook due to energy poverty. In this way, it avoided a food waste situation.
Multi-actors agreements are signed with partnered companies and social entities in order to ensure the correct functioning of donations and food safety. Agreement protocol is validated by the Catalan Food Safety Agency and the Waste Agency of Catalonia.