Swiss food bank saves 8,500 tonnes of food from going to waste
Products from the food industry were a key driver of this development, Schweizer Tafel said on Monday. However, new deep-freeze logistics and optimised collection and distribution routes also contributed.
According to a statement, Schweizer Tafel provided a total of 1.7 million shopping bags of food last year, each weighing 5kg. This corresponded to goods worth CHF61.8 million ($77 million), saving 14,205 tonnes of CO2 emissions.
The goods were donated to social institutions such as soup kitchens, emergency shelters, women’s refuges, homeless shelters and food distribution centres.
