Aid organisation recovered 6,500 tonnes of food in 2023

Last year the aid organisation Schweizer Tafel (Swiss table) saved 6,500 tonnes of perfectly good food from being destroyed. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox According to its own figures, this prevented the emission of around 10,600 tonnes of CO2, Schweizer Tafel said on Monday. The CO2 calculations are new and are carried out by the organisation Eaternity, which specialises in such measurements. + How important are food banks? The perfectly good but surplus food comes from the retail trade and industry. The aid organisation delivers them free of charge to around 500 social institutions in Switzerland, such as soup kitchens, emergency shelters and homeless shelters. + How can we reduce food waste? Translated from German by DeepL/ts How we work This news story has been written and carefully fact-checked by an external editorial team. At SWI swissinfo.ch we select the most relevant news for an international audience and use automatic translation tools such ...