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Healthcare access in “zero waste” Milan: five minutes with . . . Gianluca Lista

BMJ 2022; 378 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.o1896 (Published 28 July 2022) Cite this as: BMJ 2022;378:o1896
  1. Sally Howard
  1. London

A paediatrician involved in a clinic at a pioneering community food bank discusses Milan’s radical project to reach the most vulnerable people, including refugees from Ukraine

“The Gallaratese hub,1 a community centre in a working class district northwest of Milan’s city centre, is one of five hubs founded in the city since 2015. The hubs drastically reduce food waste by collecting and recycling waste food from local businesses and supermarkets and redistributing these products on a hyper-local scale. Thanks to the hubs, the city will have halved its food waste, by 200 metric tonnes of food a year, by 2030.

“Many of the customers who ‘shop’ at the centre’s …

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