King Charles III launches the Coronation food project against food waste and poverty

The Coronation food project wanted by King Charles III aims to provide logistical support for the recovery and distribution of surplus food.

• King Charles III will use the occasion of his 75th birthday to launch the Coronation food project against food waste and poverty.
• The project aims to provide efficient logistical support for the recovery and redistribution of food surpluses with environmental and social benefits.
• The establishment of a network of hubs where the recovered food will be preserved and transformed is envisaged:objective, to distribute 200 million meals a year.

On November 14th, on the occasion of his 75th birthday, Charles III of United Kingdom, will launch the Coronation food project, the real initiative against it food waste and in support of most needy British families.  

Forever sensitive to environmental issues, the monarch strongly wanted the project also to give an answer to the crisis, with thousands of subjects put in difficulty byinflation and from rising cost of living.It is estimated that they are currently wasted in the UK 12 million tons of food every year, while they are about 14 million people living in conditions of food poverty.To cite another figure, in the last year in England there has been a record increase (+26 percent) of homeless who sleep on the street.

Coronation food project, logistical support for the redistribution of food surpluses

According to initial previews, the project will be launched thanks to a large donation from King's Pwcf Charitable Fund and in collaboration with Do Share, the UK's largest charity fighting hunger and food waste, and The Felix Project, which deals with the recovery of surpluses from the food industry and distribution to charities and schools.The objective is to provide efficient logistical and organizational support for these activities until the figure of is reached 200 million meals distributed per year.

The initiative will, in fact, include the establishment of a network of city hubs that they will have the ability to storing food, preserving it, preparing it and packaging it before redistributing it to charities.In a first phase of the project, hubs will be created London, Liverpool, Glasgow and Northern Ireland;in the second phase we will continue to Cardiff, Leeds, Birmingham And Milton Keynes.

Starting from the hubs, several refrigerated electric trucks they will go to collect surplus food from companies or restaurants they want donate food instead of throwing it away;once the food has been recovered, the trucks will return to the hub where the food will come stored in the fridge or freezer or it will come transformed into a ready meal before being distributed to food banks, community kitchens, schools, organizations that care for the homeless or families in difficulty.