2022 Non-Waste Award: All the Winners

The Non sprecare Award , born from an idea by Antonio Galdo and promoted by the Luiss Guido Carli University in partnership with the Acea Group, for the 2022 edition has put the spotlight on the theme of energy, collecting over 100 ideas and projects from citizens and associations.

DO NOT WASTE AWARD 2022 EDITION

The common goal of most of the projects is to limit dependence on gas and oil and reduce costs for consumers and the most vulnerable in obvious economic difficulty. "We have demonstrated a great capacity for grassroots initiative to effectively address the problems associated with the energy crisis," Galdo comments. "Politicians and experts still talk about an 'energy transition,' but Italians are already significantly ahead; they have changed their consumption paradigm and are demonstrating, as usual, all the qualities of an adaptable people."

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Fabio, 90, hosts Ukrainian families and Carla, 16, organizes humanitarian aid.

In the Personality category , two representatives of opposite generations were honored: sixteen-year-old Carla and ninety-year-old Fabio, who demonstrated their understanding that life itself should not be wasted. Carla organized a bus to Lublin with food, blankets, and medicine for the Ukrainian people, and returned to Italy with 50 refugees. Fabio, however, despite his age, decided to dedicate himself to helping those in need by offering his home to a refugee family.

Three schools in Milan become self-sufficient with photovoltaic systems.

The School and University category award went to three Milanese schools that, together, managed to self-produce energy and then donate it to the local community. The Rinnovata Pizzigoni Comprehensive Institute, which includes two primary schools ( Dante Alighieri and Rinnovata ), a secondary school ( Puecher ), and the Bottoni scientific high school , installed solar panels on their roofs to become self-sufficient and donate surplus energy to the local energy community.

I'M DONATED TONIGHT SO AS NOT TO WASTE FOOD

The Association Award went to Stasera offro io (I'm giving tonight) , an app that limits food waste by donating to disadvantaged people. Thanks to the web platform created by the Rome Food Bank, unsold food from small businesses, such as delicatessens, bakeries, fishmongers, butchers , and greengrocers , easily reaches the tables of families in financial difficulty, connecting donors and recipients. The app successfully connected 35 donors in Rome, where an average of 40% of bread is thrown away at the end of the day.

Infratture SpA builds large-scale plants in Japan

The Company Award goes to Pier Francesco Rimbotti, founder of Infrastrutture SpA , a leader in the solar energy system market in South America, which won the contract to build an 8-hectare solar plant with 9.760 solar panels in the Litate area of ​​Fukushima Prefecture, where one of the largest environmental disasters in human history occurred.

ACSM Primiero: 10 communities united to produce energy

And more. For the Institutions category , the jury selected ten Trentino municipalities that, starting with hydroelectric plants that produce 450 million kilowatt-hours per year (over ten times the area's local consumption), have joined forces to self-produce renewable energy. In addition to water, the municipalities also produce energy from wood, which they use to power their district heating plants. The project was implemented by Acsm Primiero , one of Trentino-Alto Adige's largest multi-utilities , which since 1902 has consistently developed along two main lines: joining forces and focusing entirely on local sources, water and wood.

HOOLY: THE SMART WASTE BIN

Finally, Hoooly, the smart bin that aims to replace garbage cans, won the award in the Young People and Startups category . Designed by Nicolas Lorenzo Zeoli (24) and Gabriele Cavallaro (25), Hoooly is spherical, automatic, and takes care of proper waste separation by indicating the right place to dispose of waste using a simple app. This innovative bin also offers cashback for orderly waste disposal.

" Rewarding those organizations that work daily for a greener world is the mission of each edition of the Non Sprecare Award, which we at Luiss are proud to support every year. Indeed, never before have the issues of sustainability and energy conservation been so central and urgent: precisely for this reason, it is essential to build a culture of responsibility that starts with young people, guiding them towards virtuous behaviors and models to generate awareness and spread it throughout their communities, " stated Luiss General Director Giovanni Lo Storto.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: All the winners of the 2021 edition of the Non sprecare Award