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We are feeding the bins instead of feeding the poor

András Nagygyörgy
director of external relations
Hungarian Food Bank
Association

Eating habits changed significantly during the pandemic. People were stockpiling first, then all over the world an unbelievable amount of food was destroyed when the HoReCa sector was forced to close. At the same time food home delivery started booming, which increased the level of packaging use.

András Nagygyörgy, director of external relations at the Hungarian Food Bank Association informed: humanity throws 1.3 billion tonnes of food into the waste bin every year – one third of all the food produced. This quantity would be enough to feed all the malnourished people in the world. In 2020 the Food Bank collected 8,300 tonnes of leftover food from grocery retailers and fed 250,000 poor people with it. //

Five from 10 Hungarians aren’t worried that in the next 50-100 years a water shortage situation might develop in Hungary – revealed a representative water consumption survey by Finish. The study also found that consumers older than 40 years try to save water the most, but 60 percent of them do this because of financial and not sustainability reasons. Per capita water use can be as much as 144 litres a day.

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