PDApp: Digital Solutions for Preventing Food Waste in the Horticultural Sector

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.973532517025

• Palavras-chave: 'Economía circular, innovación, sostenibilidad, intercambio, prevención, trazabilidad.

• Keywords: Circular economy, innovation, sustainability, Marketplace, prevention, traceability.

• Abstract:

  Food losses and food waste (FWL) are a problem that has a negative social, environmental and economic impact. However, there is still a great lack of knowledge and few incentives for its prevention. In Spain, an opportunity for its reduction is opening up through the future law on food losses and food waste, which will oblige food companies to have plans for its prevention, among other measures. To facilitate the adaptation of companies to the new law, the PDApp Operational Group, a consulting service based on digital tools, has been created. Its platform speeds up the implementation of prevention plans, optimizes decision making and proposes alternatives for surpluses, encouraging exchange and revaluation under circular economy principles. The results of the tests show PDApp's potential to facilitate the adaptation of food companies to the future law, reducing their economic losses and environmental impact.