2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
About 7,000 tons of food products will be thrown away by households and restaurants in our country after the Easter holidays. It turns out that most of the food is unnecessary after the holiday.
Although Bulgaria is the poorest country in the European Union, nearly 1,800 tons of food are dumped in Bulgaria every day, and in the period around the holidays this amount increases several times, btv reports.
Almost 10% of the food that goes in the containers can be donated to the poor. A large amount of it is cooked by restaurants, but not consumed.
Among the few places where food is donated rather than thrown away is the Social Services Complex in the town of Roman. Every week a bus travels from the capital, which delivers free food and thus significantly alleviates the budget of the complex.
There are some things that even children with families do not try, because they do not have opportunities, says Ivet Simeonova from the complex.
To be donated, the food must be within the expiration date. However, leftovers from restaurants and households go directly to the trash, so the advice is the next time we go shopping, stick to a specific list - not shop, as if stockpiling a war.
On average, Bulgarian households throw away 43% of the food they buy. In this regard, our country is no exception to the European Union, which throws away the same amount of food, and it can be donated to 1 billion starving people in the world.
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