School food waste
The researcher Onintza Rojas Olazabal recently published a report on food in Tolosaldea in which it states that 160 kilos of food are wasted every day in schools in this region. This is not surprising, and there are different reasons to explain this. However, the worst part is that a lot of that food doesn’t even get to the table and is wasted instead of being given away to people.
We know that some schools are making tremendous efforts not to throw away food and perhaps one of the best examples of that is Laukariz Primary School, and one day we will have an interview with the canteen manager. The case is that the Laukariz school, like the schools in Orduña, Gernika and Markina, has taken on the management of the kitchen to give priority to locally produced, organic, healthy food to pupils. The work has not been easy, but there is little food waste in these schools, and in the case of Gernika, the Red Cross manages the leftover food.
Alvaro Saiz of the Solidarity fridge has set up the Rexcatering company specifically to manage leftover food from schools, hospitals and nursing homes. This initiative is completely legal and provides a solution for food surplus.
So we want to ask Mungia Town Hall these four questions:
1. Exactly how much unused food is wasted in Mungia schools?
2. How many kilos of food waste does it throw away and how much does it cost to send this food to a landfill or incinerator?
3. Why not launch a service to recover these food wastes for composting?
4. Why not get in contact with Rexcatering or the Red Cross to find a solution to the problem of food surplus?
Food is not rubbish, and we need to give it the importance it deserves !!!
