Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-01-19-Speech-4-362-000"
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"Mr Caronna has tabled a good report, which is why I voted in favour. It calls on the Commission and the Member States to implement specific measures to halve food waste by 2025, to improve the efficiency of the food industry and, in particular, to increase public awareness of this issue. We all have to do our bit here. The figures are alarming: in Germany alone, an estimated 20 million tonnes of food ends up being thrown away every year. Moreover, this is mainly happening right at the end of the food chain – in other words, it is being done by us, the consumers. Quite apart from the ethical issues of how we can allow this to happen when so many people do not have even the bare minimum, it also gives rise to environmental pollution and costs of disposal. We therefore all need to take a more sustainable attitude to food, and we politicians should impose fewer regulations on the food industry that only aggravate the problem. The German organisation
provides an example of a sensible option for reusing food that can no longer be sold. In Saxony alone, there are 35
or table, charities; in Germany as a whole, there are around 900. Over 100 000 tonnes of food are donated to the
organisations in Germany annually – unfortunately, that still leaves a lot of the 20 million tonnes going to waste."@en1
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