After last year's success, starting from next Monday, SorrentoOrangeWeek will propose again the initiative dedicated to the students of primary and secondary schools in the municipalities of Sorrento, Piano di Sorrento and Massa Lubrense. Young students are asked to develop anti-waste recipes, made with recovered ingredients and, in particular, with Sorrento oranges (blonde Sorrento and bitter orange).
The only requirements are creativity and the desire to get involved, using those parts of the ingredients that are usually discarded or by giving new life to the leftovers in the refrigerator. The aim, in addition to being fun, is to raise awareness among the younger generation on a topic of great importance and relevance: every year, around the world, about a third of the food produced is wasted.
In Italy, we are talking about an annual loss of 8.65 million tons of food or 146 kg per capita, with 73% of the waste occurring at home. In light of these numbers, the European goal is to halve food waste by 2030, both in retail sales and by consumers.
Penisolaverde, a service company active in the Sorrento Peninsula, creator and promoter of SorrentoOrangeWeek, aims to involve and raise awareness among a large audience of students, starting from the result of last year, when the works received were about 130, an index of the great attention with which young people approach the theme of food waste. The details related to the methods of participation in the competition will be communicated to all the schools involved in the initiative. Students, who will be able to create work groups and, for the younger ones, involve relatives and parents, are asked to develop a recipe and testify its steps, in photographic or video format. The 5 best recipes will be made by the students of the Enogastronomy and Hotel Hospitality direction of the San Paolo Polytechnic Institute of Sorrento and awarded during a public ceremony, scheduled for May.