The 2025 ReportDouble materialityPast editions archive
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The 2025 ReportDouble materialityPast editions archive
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Impact stories

Our projects

The concrete results of our work, told through the initiatives and partnerships that generate measurable value for the environment and communities.

Un Bel Gesto: Surplus Food and Technology in the Service of Solidarity.

In 2025:

1,820 food boxes distributed thanks to the recovery of surplus meals.
Around 910 kg of food recovered as part of the school catering service.
Over 40 households supported through the coordination of municipal Social Services. Un Bel Gesto is the project developed with Diapason Digital and promoted in the Bologna-area municipalities served by Matilde Ristorazione, a Camst group company, to recover surplus school meals and make them available, through an app, to people and households identified by the municipal Social Services.

Scelti perché buoni: Imperfect Vegetables Become a Valuable Resource

Around 16 tonnes of cosmetically imperfect fruit and vegetables to be recovered and used in the first six months of the trial. Camst group, in partnership with Agribologna and Conor, is launching the “Scelti perché buoni” project, an initiative that acts upstream in the agri-food supply chain to prevent waste in the field. The project makes use of seasonal vegetables that are cosmetically imperfect but nutritionally excellent, putting them straight onto the menus of commercial food service...

Camst Group and ANT Foundation: Promoting a Culture of Care and Prevention in the Community.

Over 2,500 meal supplies donated in the past year to cancer patients cared for at home and their families. The more than ten-year collaboration between Camst group and Fondazione ANT stems from a deeply shared value: protecting people requires continuity and closeness, especially in their most vulnerable moments. This common vision guides support for home medical care and the launch of shared cancer prevention programmes.

Caciotta della Dozza: Training, Inclusion and Social Reintegration through the Dairy Supply Chain.

1 product that combines quality and social value, supporting the continuity of a concrete path of vocational training and job placement. The Caciotta della Dozza collaboration brings together Camst group, the promoter Granarolo, Fare Impresa in Dozza, Avoc, Cefal Emilia-Romagna and Coop Alleanza 3.0 in a vocational training and job inclusion project run inside the Rocco D’Amato prison in Bologna.

Together Against Gender-Based Violence: Camst Group and D.i.Re Promote Cultural Change Starting from Schools.

2,000 children aged 4 to 7 involved in the Municipality of San Polo di Torrile. 1 experimental school project launched in collaboration with the local contacts of the D.i.Re network’s anti-violence centres. 1 training course for the teachers involved in the project. Camst group continues its commitment to combating violence against women and is redefining its strategic partnership with the national association D.i.Re – Donne in Rete contro la violenza. In 2025, the action focuses on educational prevention and early cultural change through an experimental local project aimed at tackling gender stereotypes directly in schools.

Camst and Hera Group: From Waste Management to Energy Recovery.

Used cooking oil
42.99 tonnes of used cooking oil collected in 2025 at 289 Camst food service locations in Italy.
44,291 litres of biofuel produced through processing in Hera Group’s circuits.
121 tonnes of CO₂eq avoided and 38 TOE of fossil energy replaced.

Organic waste
258,701 kg of organic waste collected and sent for recovery at the Ribò meal production centres of the Municipality of Bologna.
21,138 m³ of biomethane estimated from the recovery of organic waste.
41.72 tonnes of CO₂ avoided. The collaboration between Camst group and Hera Group, launched in 2020, continues with projects dedicated to the circular economy and sustainable waste management. Recovering used cooking oil and organic waste makes it possible to turn waste generated in kitchens into biofuel and biomethane respectively.