HOTREC | Reduce Food Waste

HORESTA Denmark is also supporting the campaign “Stop Wasting Food movement Denmark”, a NGO-

industry partnership, which seeks to increase public awareness about food waste by organizing campaigns,

mobilizing the press and media, and encouraging debate.

For more information on the “Partnership on Less Food Waste”:

For more information on “Stop Wasting Food movement Denmark”:

Publication of a guide to help French hotels and restaurants reduce food waste

In order to raise restaurants’ awareness, UMIH published in September 2015 a guide

which provides a number of practical tips and recommendations from chefs which

restaurants can implement in practice at every stage of the management of the

business. In October 2016, UMIH decided to update the guide for restaurants and to

complete it with a specific guide for hotels, which also proposes recommendations

to help hotels reduce the levels of food waste produced for the breakfast of the

guests.

Both guides were elaborated in partnership with ADEME (Agence de l’Environnement

et de la Maîtrise de l’Energie) and were disseminated electronically to all UMIH’s

Members across France. They both received widespread public coverage, with

around 80 press articles and interviews dedicated to both guides.

UMIH’s guide for restaurants is available at the following link:

RESTAURANTS-FINAL-1.pdf

UMIH’s guide for hotels is available at the following link:

HOTELS-FINAL-1.pdf

A pioneer project in France for the secondary use of food waste in

restaurants

The Synhorcat, supported by ADEME (Agence de l’Environnement et de la Maîtrise

de l’Energie), the Paris City Council and the Ile de France region, mandated Moulinot

Compost & Biogaz to carry out a pilot operation to sort out bio-waste in 80 catering

establishments for 1 year. The objectives were to identify the keys to a successful

sorting of bio-waste and to propose to the restorer an efficient methodology to comply

with the legislation.

In the end, Moulinot Compost & Biogaz demonstrated the effectiveness of its approach by collecting 560

tonnes of food waste (while 200 tonnes were initially expected).

Thanks to its success, since early 2015, it has become a key player in the sorting, collection and recovery of

food waste in Ile de France, with more than 250 collection points.

The report of the pilot operation:

The website of Moulinot Compost & Biogaz:

European hospitality industry guidelines to reduce food waste and recommendations to manage food donations