Promote Organisation: Raisio Regional Training Consortium
Country: Finland
What: Raseko is a training consortium in South – West of Finland with nearly 3500 students and 240 staff. The consortium aims at reducing the food waste within the organisation’s food canteens where there are approximately 1000 people on a daily basis who are eating in the consortium’s canteens. In addition to this the consortium is aiming at raising the awareness of a more sustainable attitudes towards consuming the food ie. within the students and staff paying more attention to the food waste that is produced on an individual level. The project is realised in two different departments; Food Services / students and staff AND Restaurant and Catering industry / teaching
How:
Food services:
- Reducing the amount of bio-waste annually
- Transparent bio-waste containers, where you can see the amount of bio-waste
- Food line options, e.g. the size of the scoop with certain food ingredients
- Processing line meals so that they can also be offered the next day as an alternative
- “Don’t throw away the future” and “Don’t eat living space from nature”- posters from the city of Raisio have been attached near all canteens on campus.
- Information posters made in sustainable development education are still expected in autumn 2023
- Giving out the surplus food for free for students who are economically in a weaker position
Restaurant and catering industry/teaching:
- Waste cabinet to facilitate food recycling
- Increasing the teaching of vegetarian dishes
- Incorporating sustainable development into daily teaching
- Zero food restaurants, teaching the zero waste world of thought
- Grease project inquiries about food waste (coming in 2024), bioscale (=making food waste visible)
- Eating good waste food competition in Raseko 18.11.2023 (second class ingredients, e.g. two-pronged carrot)
When: The project started 2022 and is ongoing
Why it is relevant: Pease describe SUSTAINABILITY (in environmental context), EFFICIENCY (in social/financial context), TRANSFERABILITY and INNOVATION aspects.
Environmental impact: Environmentally it will diminish the greenhouse gas emissions, as for every 1kg of food waste, just over 2.5kg of CO2 is emitted. Also, when food ends up in landfill, it generates methane, a GHG 25 times more potent than CO2. in year 2022 Raseko received a sustainability certificate of OKKA- fundation for its significant steps towards a more sustainable actions within the organisation.
Economic efficiency: By reducing the food waste, there are some significant economical benefits with the project.
Social impact: The project has an enormous social impact as the project is taking place in an educational environment.
On the social level it promotes more responsible behaviour of students and school staff and also raises awareness regarding the food consumption / prevention of food waste. Promote the sense of community and social cohesion as the project is done by every member of the organisation.
Giving away the surplus food for students who are in a weaker financial situation is also socially sustainable and works as an example for students of how a society can work in a socially sustainable way.
- Target Groups: School Staff, Students and future restaurant and catering professionals
- Transferability: This model of raising the awareness of reducing the food waste in a school environment and making some concrete actions towards a more sustainable working methods within the theme is totally transferable to the other school environments globally.
- Innovations: More innovative activities and actions can be created according to the organisation’s working environment where the schools are located and what the resources in question are, for example, by utilizing artificial intelligence. Potential educational innovations.
RESULTS OF THE GOOD PRACTICE
- Raising the educational aspects and awareness of sustainability and fighting the food waste both within the organisation staff members and students as well as within the whole society.
- Reducing the environmental impacts