Foodbank New South Wales
The Environment
Imagine this:
- The best-selling muesli missing the hazelnuts & raisins ?
- The canned tomato soup labeled as corn kernels ?
- The 4 pallets of tea bags which ran out of date last week ?
- Or the 2,000 bottles of soft drink with last summer’s holiday competition labels ?
What do you do?
Cost the value of the produce plus shipping to the landfill site, (truck, fuel, tipping fees of $70 a tonne). Deduct that from your income tax, lecture the person responsible, and dump the lot into the ground.
Every year in NSW, a quarter of a million tonnes of wasted food is estimated to go straight to tips. Every tonne costs consumers $60.00 and generates a putrescent concoction that will make landfill-site remediation a boom industry 10 years from now !
Meantime, one charitable hostel in Sydney serves 47,000 meals every month to hungry men. Consider donating surplus stock for charitable use. Even if this may involve some extra work and incur some extra cost.
We need to create a more sustainable and healthier environment for current and future generations. If achieving this objective simultaneously reduces superfluous waste while providing nutritious meals to the needy; then it is to our universal benefit.
