PROXIDON
Project details
- Main leader : BANQUE ALIMENTAIRE DU RHÔNE
- Type of initiative :
- Périmètre : Rhône - Isère
- Localisation : 127 Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 69150 DECINES CHARPIEU
- Date de début : juin 2016
Economy circular topics
- Extending useful service life
- Responsible consumption
- Functional service economy
- Industrial and regional ecology
- Recycling
- Eco-design
- Sustainable procurement
The Rhône food bank (Banque Alimentaire du Rhône) has set up an innovative food donation service: ProxiDon. This service is based on an Internet platform that brings together local traders who want to donate and associations partnering the Food Bank who distribute or cook for their beneficiaries. Check out the ProxiDon video >> here<< !
Here’s how it works:
- A local shop signed up to the service puts its food donation on the platform.
- The geolocation system sends the offer to the 5 associations closest to the shop.
- An association who wants to come and pick up the donation books it on the platform.
- The association comes and fetches it at a time that is convenient for the shopkeeper.
- To improve the service, both shopkeeper and association are invited to give it a score.
Qualitative benefits
Economic: The fight against food waste is one of the pillars of the Food Bank thereby contributing to helping people in vulnerable situations; food that is still consumable but unmarketable is saved from being destroyed and benefits those with the fewest resources.
Environmental: This service helps to reduce the environmental impact of transporting food donations by limiting long trips by means of geolocation, thereby reducing carbon emissions.
ProxiDon connects shopkeepers with local associations. Associations go directly to the shop, saving many return trips using the Food Bank lorries.
Example: Before creating the ProxiDon Service, the Rhône Food Bank was collecting from five shops in a greengrocery chain each week. To do this, a refrigerated vehicle was dispatched to collect the unsold produce. Today this chain of shops uses the ProxiDon service. Whenever they have unsold or surplus produce, a basket is posted on ProxiDon, any association interested in it reserves the basket and goes directly to the shop less than 1.5 km away. This saves trips with Food Bank lorries, preventing the pollution caused by this type of transport. An impact study on reducing greenhouse gases is under way, though it has not yet been updated.
Society: Firstly, ProxiDon allows food aid associations to have extra free food. Secondly, this service helps two worlds that were not familiar with each other to converge on the themes of solidarity and fighting against waste. It also helps to raise awareness of local shopkeepers and those who benefit from the associations in the fight against waste.
Stages of the initiative
The idea for this service came from a simple observation: the Food Bank collects consumable but unmarketable produce from hypermarkets and from the food industry every day. But for reasons of cost, it cannot go to all the local shops (less than 1500m²) to pick up donations weighing only a few kilos. Every day these shops have produce that they would like to make available and may not have a solution for doing this; conversely, Food Bank partner associations always need food to feed and distribute to the poor. So from this observation was born the idea of creating a service to reconcile the two via an internet exchange platform, ensuring that the exchanges are safe through the Rhône Food Bank’s food safety expertise and fight against waste.
Areas of activity
- Food
- Transport
- Trade
Resources
- Water
- Food
- Biowaste
Pillar(s) of the circular economy
- Extending useful service life
- Responsible consumption
Technical resources
A dedicated Internet platform and a special website for our project funded by our partners Google, Banque Populaire Loire et Lyonnais and Crédit Agricole Centre Est.Human resources
Rhône Food Bank: 9 employees - 110 voluntary staff
Financers
- Banque Populaire Loire et Lyonnais
- Crédit Agricole Centre Est
Web link(s)
www.proxidon.orghttp://www.ba69.banquealimentaire.org/articles/proxidon-00468