Friday, June 19, 2015

Germans waste 18m tonnes of food yearly...

Germans throw away 18 million tonnes of perfectly good food every year, a report showed on Thursday.

The Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) study showed that "on average we throw away 313 kilos of usable food every second," WWF expert Tanja Dräger said in Berlin on Thursday.

More than 2.6 million hectares of farmland are being used to produce food "for the bin“, the environementalists say.

"At the moment, it's as if we turned Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Saarland into giant fields and then just threw away the harvest," WWF chief Christoph Heinrich said.

 Most of the waste could be avoided if consumers were smarter about shopping and preparing their meals for the week, Dräger said. Full story...

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