With the Sprecometro app you save food, money and energy

LThe Waste Meter app makes its debut on mobile devices from today, January 31, 2023. Teach how to buy, store and use food without wasting it. And to calculate how much the food thrown in the bin costs individually in euros and how much it costs for the environment in terms of energy and water consumed.

What Waste Watcher International does

«For 10 years the campaign sprecozero.it monitor eating behavior in Italy and in many other European countries. And it reports annually with a report of the data collected» explains Andrea Segre, scientific director of the sprecozero campaign and developer coordinator of the Waste Watcher International app. «Our observatory that is measures how much and how food is wasted. It is distinguished food by food. It evaluates what awareness consumers have of this waste». The research has solid scientific basis and is implemented in collaboration with the Department of Science and Technology of the University of Bologna and with its spin-off Last minute market. Has product several studies already published in authoritative sector magazines.

How the Wastemeter works

Andrea Segre, director of the Sprecozero.it campaign and developer coordinator of the Sprecometro app.

It is the background that led to the creation of the Sprecometro app. After downloading it you are invited to answer a battery of questions that measure your purchasing habits and food preservation e check the probable weekly waste. At this point assign to a waste saving profile. «The purpose of the Sprecometro app it is not labelling the user or give him “downvotes”. But to raise awareness of those who lend themselves to the gamehelping him to improve his consumerist performance» continues Segre.

The waste diary

If you register on the App, in fact, a savings diary is activated which tracks the data weekly, from which you can then verify the progress of your profile over time. Also the app shows how much money corresponds to the food thrown awayin how many km to travel by car waste can be translated e in how many half liter bottles of water. To allow all df to improve their results, the app offers a wide range of tips, tutorials and videos to effectively plan your shopping, store food better, reuse leftovers in a creative way.

How much money thrown in the trash

“For ten years on the whole, we recorded insignificant variations of food waste, for the better and for the worse» continues Segre. We settle on it about 500 grams of food thrown away per week per individual, they make on average about 14 billion euros. per year, only in Italy» continues Andrea Segre. With corresponding ecological costs (But it must be said that the greatest wastes are from companies and institutions, ed).

February 5th is the 10th National Day

The Sprecometro app is presented on the occasion of National Food Waste Prevention Day, which is celebrated on February 5, but which has the climax in a conference in Rome on February 2 in which they will come 2023 report data released. On this occasion they are also proclaimed the winners of the Vivere a Sprecozero Award which gives awards to institutions, school associations and also to individual citizens.

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