Day 1
| Day One – 8 November 2011 |
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| 08:15 | Registration and Coffee |
| 09:10 | Opening Remarks from the Chair |
| 09:15 | Combating Food Losses in the Supply Chain
- A global view of current challenges - Solutions, projects and success factors of the METRO GROUP in the entire supply chain with focus on food losses - Sustainable food and feed production - Logistics and management in the stores Nina-Alexandra von Radowitz, Head of Sustainability and Environment, METRO AG, Germany |
| 09:45 | Panel Discussion: Strategies to Reduce Food Waste in the EU
Selina Juul, Founder, Stop Wasting Food, Denmark Stephane Arditi, Senior Policy Officer Products & Waste, EEB, Belgium Stephanie Mantell, Sustainable Consumption and Eco-Behaviour, Brussels Environment, Belgium Nina-Alexandra von Radowitz, Head of Sustainability and Environment, METRO AG, Germany |
| 10:15 | Current Food Labelling and its Impact on Consumer Behaviour. The Future of “Best Before” Labelling
Dr. Birgit VAN TONGELEN, Policy Officer, DG Health and Consumers, European Commission |
| 10:45 | Questions |
| 11:00 | Refreshments |
| 11:30 | Keynote Address
The European Commission’s Actions to Prevent and Reduce Waste Janez Potočnik, European Commissioner for the Environment * |
| 12:00 | Questions |
| 12:10 | Food Waste Prevention in the Foodservice Industry
Neil Barrett, Vice President Group Sustainable Development, Sodexo, France |
| 12:40 | Questions |
| 12:50 | Lunch |
| 14:20 | Special Guest Speaker
Tristram Stuart, Author / Senior Research Associate, University of Sussex, UK
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| 14:50 | Questions |
| Member States’ Actions to Combat Food Waste | |
| 15:00 | Government Initiatives to Promote Food Waste Prevention in France
Gaëlle Pion, Project Manager – Support to People in Need and Food Waste Prevention, Ministry of Agriculture and Fishing, France |
| 15:20 | Tackling Food Waste in the UK: The Impact of ‘Love Food Hate Waste’ and Voluntary Agreements with the Food Industry
Andrew Parr, Consumer Food Waste Prevention Programme Manager, WRAP, UK |
| 15:40 | Fixing Government Targets and Developing Action Plans to Tackle Food Waste Prevention and Food Waste in the Netherlands
Senior Representative, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation, The Netherlands |
| 16:00 | Questions |
| 16:15 | Refreshments |
| 16:35 | Case Study: The FoodCycle Project – Transforming Waste into a Resource
- Identifying the major challenges and solutions - The model and its limitations - Outlook for the future Kelvin Cheung, CEO, FoodCycle, UK |
| 17:05 | Helping Consumer Minimise Food Waste – The Achievements of Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark
Selina Juul, Founder, Stop Wasting Food, Denmark |
| 17:35 | Questions |
| 17:50 | Chair’s Closing Remarks |
| 17:55 | End of the First Day of the Conference |
Day 2
| Day Two – 9 November 2011 | |
| 08:30 | Welcome Coffee |
| 09:05 | Chair’s Opening RemarksJohn Swift, Director of Regulatory Affairs, SCA, Belgium / Chairman, Europen |
| Retailers’ Response to Food Waste | |
| 09:15 | Case Study: A Major Retailer’s Strategies to Combat Food Waste in the Netherlands- Corporate responsibility at Ahold
- Food waste - Policies & processes - Some case studies and best practices Thijs Duyzings, Corporate Responsibility – Waste Reduction, Royal Ahold, The Netherlands |
| 09:45 | Case Study: Actions by a Major Retailer to Tackle Food Waste in Norway- Putting food waste on the Norwegian agenda
- Establishing the first Norwegian Foodbank - Encouraging cooperation within the food industry to find causes and remedies for the food waste - Using food waste for biogas-production instead of burning it Halvard Hauer, Environmental Manager, NorgesGruppen ASA, Norway |
| 10:15 | Questions |
| 10:30 | Refreshments |
| Transforming Waste into a Resource | |
| 11:00 | How Much Food Waste? How to Measure it and Make Reliable Statistics?- System definitions, sources and categories
- Detailed waste sorting analysis - National material flow analysis - Examples from Norway Frode Syversen, General Manager, Mepex, Norway |
| 11:30 | Food Waste as a Resource: Used Vegetable Oil as Feedstock for Biodiesel Production- Managing operations: collection, production and distribution
- Managing the financials of a biodiesel plant Javier Vila, Managing Director, Bionet Europa, Spain |
| 12:00 | Questions |
| 12:15 | Lunch |
| 13:45 | Food Waste as a Resource: Selecting the Most Effective Food Waste Processing Method- Drivers for change and the requirement to treat food waste
- Changes over time in treating food waste - Different types of systems for treating food waste – costs and benefits - A case study of anaerobic digestion for treating food waste - Technical competency Dr Stephen Wise, Technical Director, Shanks Waste Management, UK |
| The Response of the Packaging Industry | |
| 14:15 | Packaging: Part of the Solution in CombatingFood Waste● Contributing to resource efficiency
● Towards a positive public packaging policy ● Industry led initiatives and solutions for change ● Changing old habits through stakeholder cooperation Julian Carroll, Managing Director, EUROPEN, Belgium |
| 14:45 | Save Food and Packaging – Intelligent Strategies to Close the Loop● Packaging as an investment in safe food
● Sustainable packaging providing functionality, safety, and resource protection ● The future of sustainability and packaging Gilian Gerke, Group Manager Sustainability Services, DSD, Germany |
| 15:15 | Questions |
| 15:30 | Refreshments |
| 15:50 | Panel Discussion: The Role of Packaging in Reducing Food WasteAnnukka Leppänen-Turkula, Managing Director, The Environmental Register of Packaging PYR Ltd, Finland
John Swift, Director of Regulatory Affairs, SCA, Belgium / Chairman, EUROPEN Gilian Gerke, Group Manager Sustainability Services, DSD, Germany |
| 16:20 | New Packaging Solutions to Combat Food WasteChristian Salbu Aasland, CEO, TimeTemp AS, Norway |
| 16:50 | Questions |
| 17:05 | Chair’s Closing Remarks |
| 17:10 | The End of the Conference |
*Subject to final confirmation
