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Tuesday, August 14th, 2018

Danish consumers reduced food waste by 14,000 tonnes in six years

Author:     James Hitchings-Hales
Source:     The Local (Denmark)
Publication Date:     18 April 2018 11:44 CEST+02:00
 Link: Danish consumers reduced food waste by 14,000 tonnes in six years
Stephan:   Here is good news, but it leaves you with a disconcerting challenge. We can't we, why don't we do something like this, it could eliminate hunger in the United States? It is a question of culture. Denmark is a society oriented towards fostering wellbeing. The United States is a society oriented toward enriching a small percentage of people by increasing their profits.

A Danish refrigerator.
Credir: Thomas Lekfeldt/Ritzau Scanpix

Danes living in apartments have reduced food waste by 24 percent per person and Danish households have reduced food waste by an average of eight percent per person over the past six years, according to new figures from the Danish Environmental Protection Agency.

Total food waste reduction by Danish households amounts to 14,000 tonnes between 2011 and 2017, the agency, part of the Ministry of Environment and Food, wrote on its website.

The figures show that Danish households had a total food wastage of 261,000 tonnes in 2011-12, a figure that was reduced to 247,000 tonnes in 2017.

And when it comes to people living in apartments in Denmark, the report shows that they have reduced their food waste by an average of 24 percent per person over the past six years. However, there was no decline in food waste among those living in detached houses.

Apartment dwellers currently throw out one and a half kilograms of edible food per household per week, according to the figures, while […]

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