2022 Non-Waste Award: All the Winners

Il Don't Waste Award, born from an idea of Antonio Galdo and promoted by the university Luis Guido Carli with the partnership of Acea Group, For the 2022 edition, it focused on the topic of energy, gathering 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.

For the category Character two representatives of opposite generations were awarded: the sixteen-year-old Carla and ninety-year-old Fabio, who demonstrated their understanding that life itself should not be wasted. Carla managed to organize 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 Category Award School and University It was awarded to three Milanese schools which, together, managed to self-produce energy and then donate it to the local area.Renovated Pizzigoni Comprehensive Institute, which includes two primary schools (Dante Alighieri e Renovated), a secondary school (Puecher) and the scientific high school Buttons, have in fact installed solar panels on their roofs, so as to be self-sufficient and donate surplus energy to the local energy community.

I'M DONATED TONIGHT SO AS NOT TO WASTE FOOD

The prize Associations he went to Tonight I'm paying, an app that limits food waste by donating to disadvantaged people. Unsold food from small businesses, such as delicatessens, bakeries, fishmongers, butchers e greengrocers, thanks to the web platform created by Food Bank of Rome They easily reach the tables of families in financial difficulty, connecting donors and recipients. The app has 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 award Companies is assigned to Pier Francesco Rimbotti founder of Infrastructure SpA, already a leader in the solar energy system market in South America, has been awarded 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 again. For the category the Institutions The jury selected ten Trentino municipalities that, starting with hydroelectric plants that produce 450 million kilowatt-hours per year (over ten times the local consumption of the area), have joined forces to self-produce renewable energy. In addition to water, the municipalities also produce energy from wood, which they use to fuel district heating plants. The project was carried out by Acsm Primiero, one of the largest multiutility of Trentino-Alto Adige, which since 1902 has done nothing but develop along two 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 bins, won the category award Young and StartUp. Realized by Nicolas Lorenzo Zeoli (24 years) e Gabriel Cavallaro (25 years old), Hoooly is spherical, automatic and takes care of the correct waste separation by opening, thanks to a simple app, the right area where to throw the waste. The innovative bin also awards a reward in terms of cashback for the orderly disposal of garbage.

«Recognizing those organizations that work daily for a greener world is the mission of each edition of the Non Sprecare Award, which, at Luiss, we are proud to support annually. 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 begins with young people, guiding them towards virtuous behaviors and models to generate awareness and spread it throughout their communities." stated the General Director of Luiss John Lo Storto.

TO KNOW MORE: All the winners of the 2021 edition of the Non sprecare Award