2025 Non-Sprecare Award: How to participate and what you can win

Registration is free and open until October 30, 2025. Up for grabs are wine packages from one of Italy's finest wineries, located in Abruzzo, "the greenest region in Italy."

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Registrations to participate are open until October 30th. to the 2025 edition of the Non sprecare Award, dedicated to the oceans. The sea covers over 71% of the Earth's surface, provides food for approximately 3 billion people, whose lives depend on marine biodiversity; produces vital oxygen for humans; and is a sort of radiator that regulates the climate and distributes heat throughout the world. We risk wasting this essential natural heritage not only for the climate crisis, increasingly serious also due to the lack of political decisions at all levels, but also due to our lifestyles with the related bad habits, especially in the field of waste disposal. According to a study by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, at this rate, by 2050, our seas will have more plastic than fish.

Hence the decision to dedicate the 16th edition of the Don't Waste Award at the seaside, confirming the attention of the two partners of the Award, the Non sprecare website and the university Luis Guido Carli, to the major issues that impact the quality of life, the environment and the future of the planet.

Il Don't waste the prize, a competition of sustainable ideas, was born from an idea of Antonio Galdo founder and director of the site Don't waste.itThe initiative is aimed at various categories, and in particular: Associations, Companies, Institutions, Schools and Universities, Startups (under 35), with the aim of collecting and promoting good anti-waste practices that are then described on the Non sprecare website in a special section dedicated to the Award. To participate in the next edition, you can submit your proposal no later than October 30, 2025The winners of each category will receive packages of local wines from Fantini group, born and rooted in Abruzzo, defined as “the green region of Europe” for its extraordinary natural and environmental richness. 

Secondo Antonio Galdo, the creator of the Award: "The sea is the paradigm of the challenge we are facing to at least stay on course toward the 17 goals of the UN Agenda for Sustainable Development, which we will unfortunately fail to achieve by 2030. The sea encompasses everything, from the extraordinary opportunities it offers, if we know how to preserve and care for it, to the enormous risks for the entire population of the planet if we continue to deface it. Even with the most banal and scandalous gestures, like throwing a cigarette butt into the waves or sticking it in the sand. As always, the future of a sustainable world depends first and foremost on us, on our willpower and our behavior." 

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