The main aim of the LIFE-F4F (Food for Feed) project is to evaluate, through a pilot-scale demonstration, an innovative and simple technology, and a low-emission process that enables the safe transformation of food waste, mainly from hotels (and more generally from the hospitality industry and restaurants), into animal feed.
Food will be processed using a solar energy to pasteurise and dry food waste, a process that has not been tested or applied previously, either in Europe or elsewhere worldwide. The F4F process will address the need to reduce waste food going to landfill, and will support the implementation of separation schemes at source for food waste to create valuable raw materials for the production of feed.
This reuse process, in line with the circular economy concept, will transform a waste management process into a feed producing one.