In the fridge to Marius valley is some boiled potatoes on a plate.
- They should certainly be used in an omelet pretty soon, he said.
An old leek risks garbage. Something canned food has been dangerously long.
- Some mats win it, admits the father of two.
Yet he tries to avoid it by writing shopping list for food purchase, do not buy too much residual dinners occasionally and eat up the children’s half-eaten food.
Each one of us throws averaging 46 kg food per year – every fifth carrier bag we fill up and take home, according to the Environment Norway. And then no wastage in agriculture and the amount discarded from restaurants and institutions, taken into account.
Mats Win
Authorities defines mats win this way: “Food thrown, but that at some point could or should have been eaten by humans, unlike unavoidable food waste such as bones, shells, production residues and the like.” To produce the food that goes into the garbage in Norway, released each year out as much greenhouse gas as 160,000 cars do. There we throw, could provide adequate nutrition to around five million people, according to food research institute Nofima.
But now the authorities and the food industry have signed a memorandum on reducing mats win. The initiative will help reduce the environmental and resource problems associated with mats win and promote a better utilization of food.
I have great expectations for the work of mats win ahead. This is a volunteer where both industry, government and consumers have a responsibility, says Climate and Environment Tine Sundtoft.
By the summer of 2016 MoU have resulted in a concrete agreement on specific reduction targets.
- Should go further
The Centre is positive to the memorandum, but believes the parties should have gone even further.
- We believe you can set goals already, says Kathrine Kleveland, central director of the Center.
Sp has therefore submitted a proposal to halve matsvinnet from current levels by 2026, and they are asking the government draw up a plan for how such a national halveringsmål reachable.
The government has allocated 1 million for 2015 with sense AS, which is the private sector’s commitment to reduce matsvinnet. The money will partly go to a mapping of mats win throughout the food chain.
- We already know that eight out of ten feel guilty because they shed too much, and that we throw 300,000 tons of food a year. Now it’s about to get a plan, says Kleveland, referring to the French example.
Prohibition mats win
In France, the government has a target to halve the amount of food thrown within ten years. Recently they decided that all the grocery store will be donating food to charities rather than throwing it. In a parliamentary question on 3 June asked Aps agricultural policy spokesman, Knut Storberget, Minister of Agriculture Sylvi Listhaug whether this could have been an option in Norway. Listhaug in turn replied that she would rather continue working with industry, pointing as well in other ways being worked on to reduce wastage.
- It carried many swine reduction measures in the industry, such as new packaging solutions, reductions in goods with a short shelf life and new products based on unsorted raw materials. The creation of Matsentralen in 2013 is also an important element in efforts to prevent mats win, she said.
In 2014 distributed Matsentralen 575 tons of food, or 3,000 daily meals to needy people in the Oslo area. This was food that the food industry would otherwise be discarded. In several of the country’s cities we are working now to establish matsentraler same model.
Meat offender
Fruits, vegetables and bakery products constitute the largest quantities mats win. 190.000 bread thrown in Norway every day. Although meat accounts for a smaller share of matsvinnet, it is probably the last group that provides the highest economic loss and the greatest greenhouse gas emissions, according to Nofima.
It is us ordinary consumers who collected accounts for the largest matsvinnet. Dalen think many people are not aware of how much they throw.
- It says something that we have very well financially, he said.
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