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

“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 supermarket, with credits loaded on cards—all of the food is free—are vulnerable, including Roma communities and refugees, many of the latter from Ukraine.“Within the hub, I’ve been involved in creating social clinics run by the healthcare non-profit Aria, where hospital doctors like me offer free medical examinations to refugees and vulnerable residents who may not have accessed state healthcare systems. We see high cultural barriers to accessing healthcare…
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