In the first half of the year, the food bank helped the needy with 4.7 million kilos of saved food
In the first half of this year, the Magyar Élélmiszerbank Egyesület rescued and donated 4.7 million kilograms of expired and defective goods to the needy.
In a statement delivered to MTI on Tuesday, the association wrote: since their establishment in 2005, they have already collected more than 100 million kilograms of unnecessary food from manufacturers and traders, so that “it ends up on the tables of those in need instead of landfills”. Moreover, the work of the food bank does not only help people with a difficult fate, by saving food they also protect nature from the environmentally destructive effects of waste, they added.
It was announced: in the first half of 2023, 248,000 needy people received food packages, which the Magyar Élélmiszerbank Egyesület put together from foods that have become redundant and are no longer marketed, but are still perfectly suitable for consumption. This is a 24 percent increase compared to the same period last year.
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