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LAST MINUTE MARKET
SPIN-OFF COMPANY UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA

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ABOUT LAST MINUTE MARKET
Last Minute Market is an academic spin-off of the University of Bologna
engaged with food (and non food) waste reduction and prevention.
With more than 10 years of experience, it works in close contact with
companies and public administrations across Italy developing, implementing
and monitoring food (and non food) waste prevention projects. Thanks to
the projects activated by LMM, unsold or not marketable (but still edible)
products are donated to charities supporting people in need. LMM also
performs research activities, training courses, and data analysis on food waste
across the whole supply chain. It also promotes initiatives aimed at drawing
public, private and governmental attention to the food waste scandal.
... toward zero waste
1998 Research Project
2001 No-profit Association
2003 Cooperative
2008 Accademic Spin-off

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Communication
Recovery
projects
Research
Data
analysis &
Impacts
evaluations
Training
HOWWE OPERATE AND FORWHOM
Local
institutions
Enterprises
Third sectorCitizens

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• Recovery of unsold
- but still edible -
produces from
commercial
activities (mainly
retailers).
Food
• Recovery of surplus
from the
public/private
catering system
(schools, hospitals
and canteens).
Catering
• Recovery of unsold
products from
pharmacies.
• Recovery of unsold
medicines from
citizens.
Pharmacy
• Recovery of non
food items from
manufacturers and
commercial
activities.
No-Food
• Recovery of unsold
books from
publishers.
Book
• Recovery of
agricultural surplus
due to the CAP
(Common
Agricultural Policy).
Harvest
RECOVERY PROJECTS
6THEMATIC AREAS
3 main areas

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RESEARCH
Last Minute Market applies research activities conducted by
Prof Segrè, Director of the Food Science Department at the
University of Bologna (Italy). Since its beginning in 1998 as a
research project, LMM activities go together with intense
research investigating food waste causes and its environmental,
nutritional, economic and social impacts.
Ad hoc projects, developed according to the needs of the public
and private contractors, take ground thanks to a collaboration
between academia and entrepreneurs.
The numbers The causes The impacts The solutions

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TRAINING
LMM develops training activities for enterprises
and the third sector based on normative aspects,
hygenic rules and logistics useful to recover food
in a proper way. Courses are mainly intended for
those who operate or work in food recovery
and redistribution.
legal aspects logistic aspects health and hygiene aspects
Proper management of recovered food

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DATA ANALYSIS
Analysis of data on recovered food
Data analysis on food waste and its
environmental, nutritional and socio-
economic impacts is one of LMM main
activities. Methodologies and evaluation
come from the research activities
developed at the Dept. of Agro Food
Sciences of the University of Bologna.
Expertise is provided to the
enterprises that have activated
recovery projects.
WasteWatcher
An Observatory to investigate waste
causes, quantify them, promote good
practises and the reduction of food
waste. The Observatory was launched
during the 2013 campaign “A Year
against Food Waste”. It firstly
presented data from a household food
waste survey carried out in Italy in
collaboration between the Dept. of
Agro Food Sciences and Technologies,
the Joint Research Center (Insitute for
Consumers Health Protection) and
the Karlsruhe Institut fur Technologie
(KIT).

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COMMUNICATION
LMM, in collaboration with the Dept. of Agro Food Science and Technologies (Univ. of
Bologna) launches every year the awareness raising campaign “A year against waste”.
The campaign, launched for the first time in 2010 with the patronage of the
European Parliament - Commission for Agriculture and Rural Development, is
dedicated every year to a different topic: «waste of food» in 2011, «waste of water»
in 2012, «waste of energy» in 2012, «ZERO waste» in 2013, toward a holistic
approach to the concept of “sustainability”.
The European Resolution to reduce food waste passed in January 2012 and the
Charter for Zero Waste municipalities signed by hundreds of municipalities,
provinces and regions are among the main achievements of the campaign.
2010 - Food waste
2011 -Waste of water
2012 -Waste of energy 2013 - ZeroWaste
The campaign “A year against waste”

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WHOWEWORK WITH
ASL Associations ATO
Cooperatives
& Consortia
Farms
Food hubs
Food
producers
Food
producers
organisations
Catering
services
Small and
medium
distribution
Retailers Wholesalers Foundations Local entities Institutions
Pharmacies Multiutilities Hospitals Schools Publishers

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LMM is partner of the FUNSIONS
project. FUSIONS aims at harmonizing
the procedures adopted by Member
States for accountability, monitoring
and measuring food waste along the
whole food supply chain. The
overarching goal is to support the
developing of a new European
common policy to fight food waste.
FUNSIONS is financed by the 7th
Framework Programme of the
European Commission. It consists of
21 partners from 13 countries.
Started in August 2012, it will end in
August 2016
THE FUSIONS PROJECT
www.eu-fusions.org

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CASE STUDY: RETAILERS
eg. hypermarket of 6/7000 m2
• 65 tons
How much
food could
be
recovered ?
• Bread and baked products: 2%
• Dairy products: 5%
• Bulk products: 10%
• Meat products: 18%
• Fruit & vegetable: 65%
Which
produces ?
• Environmental
• Nutritional
• Social
• Economic
What kind
of benefits ?

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CASE STUDY: FOOD CHAIN
Stage Food waste/losses
(1.000 tons)
Economic value
(MLN €)
Agricultural production 1.500 875
Food processing 1.700 1.100
Distribution (Retailers) 380 1.500
Total (excluding consumption) ~ 3.6 MLN t ~ 3.5 MLD €
The quantities and the economic value
The environmental footprint (some exemples)
Food left in field
1.2 billions m3 of water
~ the ISEO Lake
Food wasted along the whole food supply chain
3% of the final energy consumption
~ final cons.of 1.650.000 italians
3.4 million tons of CO2 eq
~ 5 mln considering disposal
The whole

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According to «Waste Watcher», the new observatory on food waste recently launched
by Last Minute Market, the food wasted in Italy in 2011 within the whole supply chain
(from farm to fork) amounts to approximately 1,19% of the Italian GDP (2011), roughly
18,5 MLD €. Domestic food waste accounts for 0,96% (~ 15 MLD €) while the
production, processing and distribution stages altogether account for the remaining
0,23% (~ 3,5 MLD €)
CASE STUDY: HOUSEOLDS
Food wasted from
farm to retailers
0,23% of GDP
Food wasted by
domestic
households
0,96% of GDP

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CASE STUDIES: OVERVIEW
1 hypermarket (A) 150 tons/year
1 hypermarket (B) 65 tons/year
1 hypermarket (C) 35 tons/year
1 supermarket 10 tons/year
15 small and medium retailers 60 tons/year
1 food hub 30 tons/year
11 pharmacies 11.300 €/year
8 school canteens 15.000 meals/year
6 department stores (no-food products) 100.000 €/year
1 hospital 15.000 meals/year
12 publishers 47.000 books/year

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CONTACTS
Last Minute Market srl
Viale G. Fanin 50 - 40127 Bologna - Italy
Phone: +39 051.2096150
Fax: +39 051.2096162
E-mail: info@lastminutemarket.it
WWW.LASTMINUTEMARKET.IT
WWW.UNANNOCONTROLOSPRECO.ORG
WWW.ANDREASEGRE.IT
WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/AZZERALOSPRECO

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Public Administrations
Other institutional bodies
Foundations
Retailers
Catering services
Food production & trade
Wholesale food markets
Multiutilities
Hospitals
Pharmacies
Publishers
Other

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PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIONS
Municipalities
• Basiliano
• Bologna
• Budrio
• Carpi
• Cesena
• Cesenatico
• Codroipo
• Daverio
• Faenza
• Ferrara
• Fiorenzuola D'Arda
• Ivrea
• Latina
• Lecco
• Manfredonia
• Martignacco
• Mercato Saraceno
• Modena
• Occhiobello
Municipalities
• Ozzano nell'Emilia
• Pagnacco
• Pavia di Udine
• Povoletto
• Pozzuolo del Friuli
• Ragusa
• Ravenna
• Reana del Rojale
• San Lazzaro di
Savena
• Sesto Calende
• Sesto S. Giovanni
• Settimo T.
• Spilimbergo
• Tavagnacco
• Travedona Monate
• Trieste
• Udine
• Varano Borghi
• Vignola
• Viterbo
Provinces
• Ancona
• Bologna
• Ferrara
• Mantova
• Parma
• Pesaro e Urbino
• Verona
• Viterbo
• Torino
Regions
• FriuliVenezia Giulia
• Emilia-Romagna
• Puglia
• Sardegna
• Sicilia
• Veneto

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Agencies
• Agenzia Regionale
del Lavoro - Regione
Sardegna
• Agenzia per lo
Sviluppo Empolese
Valdelsa
ATO
• Ato Forlì- Cesena
(Provincia di Forlì-
Cesena e i suoi 30
Comuni)
Districts
• Distretto di
Casalecchio di Reno
• Distretto di Sesto
Calende
Universities
• Università degli
Studi dellaTuscia di
Viterbo
• Università di
Bologna
• Università di Buenos
Aires (Argentina)
• Università di Ferrara
• Università di San
Paolo (Brasile)
OTHER INSTITUTIONAL BODIES

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Fond.Agnelli Fond. Cariverona
Fond. Cassa di
Risparmio di Cento
Fond. Collegio San
Carlo di Modena
Fond. Del Monte di
Bologna e Ravenna
Fond. Provincia di
Lecco
FOUNDATIONS

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Coop Adriatica Unicoop Firenze Nordiconad Leclerc Panorama
Carrefour FinIper Despar Interspar Bennet
Gruppo GS Sma E.Leclerc-Conad Il Gigante Plenty Market
RETAILERS
LMM-FOOD & NO FOOD

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Supermercato
Palmarket
Supermercati
Pellicano
Iper SIGMA LD Market
Gruppo CRAI Gruppo Rossetto Gruppo Orsatti Cadoro Conad Adriatico
Coop Reno Mercatone Uno
RETAILERS
LMM-FOOD & NO FOOD

22.
Camst Cir Food Concerta Copra
Gams Serenissima
Matilda
Ristorazione
CNH
CATERING SERVICES
LMM-CATERING

23.
Bonomelli (Filtrofiore, Pizza
Catarì, Polenta Valsugana,
Thé Infré, Cannamela)
Gruppo Montenegro
Cooperativa Ghanacoop di
Modena
Salus Bevande
Fa.Pi Distribuzione Alcenero & Mielizia
FOOD PRODUCTION & TRADE

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WHOLESALE FOOD MARKETS
CAAB
Mercato Ortofrutticolo
di Cesena
Veronamercato

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MULTIUTILITIES
Geovest
Gruppo Hera
(Hera Bologna, Hera Imola,
Hera Modena)
Marche Multiservizi

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Ospedale Maggiore
Bologna
OspedaleTorrette
d’Ancona
Ospedali diVerona
Policlinico Sant'Orsola
Malpighi Bologna
HOSPITALS
LMM-CATERING

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Farmacie Comunali di
Ferrara
Farmacie Comunali
Sesto san Giovanni (MI)
Federfarma Bologna
Forlifarma - Farmacie
Comunali di Forlì
PHARMACIES & PHARMACIES
ASSOCIATIONS LMM-PHARMACY

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Alberto Perdisa
Editore
Arianna Editrice
Casa editrice
Dehoniana
Coconino Press Ed Agricole
Edizioni Arka Edizioni Calderini
Franco Panini
Editore
Edizioni
Pendragon
Edizioni EMI
Giunti Editore Longo Editore Il Mulino Editore
PUBLISHERS
LMM-BOOK