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81 Evaluation of the Results

Food At the end of our project, in June

2019, justice ministers of Germany
met to discuss what is called ‘con-
Waste tainern’ (to container, i.e. to snatch

food out of containers). They decid-
ed by a large majority and with some
valid arguments, that snatching food
out of supermarket containers, re-
mains to be prohibited in Germany,
lmost everything you buy even if the food is still consumable,
A nowadays is packed in plastic On the other hand there also were
- but why? It is mainly due to the fact justice ministers against this law,
that packaging and exporting goods as this law would continue the food
in plastic has many advantages. The waste in Germany, food snatchers
directives of the EU and also of the being labeled criminals. We hope
member states allow hardly any that politicians will find a solution
scope for unpacked goods, although that is in accordance with the in-
the climate targets are oriented to- terests and values of both sides in-
wards the environment. volved, the supermarkets and the
“ When it good ideas in our partner countries.
“food protectors”. We found some

Besides the amount of plastic we
comes to the
economy, the produce, consume and use every
day in our modern civilization, the
powers of the food amount of food we throw away is

market even more enormous. Using an
Irish Tesco supermarket as an ex-
are very strong ample, our project demonstrated
today. ” how much our garbage really is. In

Ireland, Tesco sold 544,128 tonnes

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