With the cry of "Let’s fill bellies instead of bins!" the Slow Food youth network (SFYN) organizes, since 2017, the World Disco Soup Day, an appointment dedicated to the fight against food waste and climate change. During the day there are hundreds of events on every continent: young activists turn excess food into a soup to share, cooking, eating and dancing together.

The Covid-19 pandemic is causing an exponential increase in the use of disposable masks and gloves. According to some projections between now and the end of the year we will have consumed at least 1 billion and 200 million masks, only in Italy. Given the huge amount of this waste, it is necessary to pay more attention than usual to their correct collection which often, we are told, are instead abandoned on the sidewalks, on the roadsides and also in waterways.

Friday, March 27, 2020, the streaming ceremony of the eleventh edition of the European Week for Waste Reduction (SERR), held throughout Europe from 16 to 24 November 2019, took place, which had as its theme "Educating to waste reduction ".

The fight against the food waste, as well as new and perfectly usable goods but - for various reasons - destined for disposal, is one of the issues on which the legislation has recently focused its attention. In order to address the serious situation of need that especially the most fragile people are facing these days, the Decree Law no. 9 of March 2, 2020, has provided that, in addition to food and medicines, traders and producers will also be able to donate other goods.

The emergency situation we are all experiencing is causing doubts about normal daily activities, including the management of waste produced by households and non-household users, especially with regard to the limitations set out in the Prime Minister's Decree. The Piedmont Region transmitted an official note on 19/3/2020 which, in summary, provides for:

Next Friday, March 27, starting at 10.30 am, the award ceremony of the eleventh edition of the European Week for Waste Reduction (EWWW), which took place throughout Europe from 16 to 24 November 2019 and which saw 5814 actions in Italy, will be held online and in streaming. As always, the actions selected within the five categories will be awarded: Public Administrations, Companies, Associations, School Institutes and Citizens.

We have already spoken to you on several occasions about the stunning work carried out by Food Pride, a group of associations in the city that collect and redistribute food surpluses from Turin's markets and shops to the needy. Now more than ever before their task is fundamental to guarantee to the most vulnerable people the necessary.

On 7 February 2020, the Memorandum of Understanding between the "Atlante del cibo" ("Atlas of Food") and the Territorial Authorities new signatories of the agreement was presented at the Sala delle Colonne of the Municipality of Turin.

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A delegation coming from the Ethiopian city of Awassa carried out in the last few days a study visit in the territory of the Metropolitan city of Torino. The visit was foreseen within the framework of the Development Cooperation Project "100%PLASTICA: intervention for the development of the plastic waste collection and recycling sector in Awassa", financed by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation, in which some offices of the metropolitan City also actively participated.