Pont Alimentari offers a diagnosis of food that is thrown away in the retail food distribution, catering and restaurant sectors. It proposes awareness raising activities for the reduction of food waste and suggestions for improvement. Pont Alimentari also promotes the creation of an interactive network (bridge) between donor companies (having the food waste) and the receiving entities that support vulnerable groups in Barcelona.

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.

Creative 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 products 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.

Multilateral 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.

The success of the model is proven by the fact that it has 40 partner establishments, 27 receiving entities and over 1,500 individual beneficiaries.