MATHIS-HALLEN HAS LOCKED THEIR DUMPSTERS IN RESPONSE TO SUCCESSFUL FOOD SAVING TECHNIQUES USED BY PIPPI'S DUMPSTERDIVING CLUB!!!!! and other resourceful common sense citizens who took to the streets after AND EVEN BEFORE ÅLAND's LANDSKAPSREGERING encouraged them to waste less food.
SHAMELESSLY SHINY NEW BRASS LOCKS IS THEIR LAST RESORT TO HIDING THEIR SHAME FOR WASTING MANY TONS OF PRECIOUS FOOD EVERY YEAR!!!!!!!!!
TODAY ON SUNDAY November 29th, Pipp-i made a routine stop at Mathis-Hallen, to save some precious fruit from being wasted, after all the thousands of km coming to beautiful Åland from some sunny place in the world.
Often the only reason for ending up in the trash/compost bin is that for example bananas are starting to have a few brown spots, and so the greener or yellower ones are preferred. The shop keepers, disturbingly, play along in the game and throw out the ones people leave by the side, and simply order more. Instead they could just refuse and let people pick from a shrinking pile, but no!, people are so spoiled by the abundance, and take the nicest looking stuff for their money. The shop keepers could end this, by ordering new stuff less often, but then they probably feel they would loose against other shops who simply do not feel troubled by throwing out perfectly good stuff.
It's a feedback loop that needs to be enlightened, and dissolved.
It is a real shame so much food is wasted. How many tons a month just on little Åland, with a population of only 27000?
Folks! The problem of wasted food isn't going away by making it a more hidden/invisible thing.
It is a well documented fact, and my blog and my experience in several countries proves the point that big shops waste more, whereas in smaller shops employees can take things home, less is ordered in......Locking dumpsters just adds insult to injury.
WE were ALL encouraged by the local government of Åland to waste less. While some, perhaps feeling exempt from this sensible request, seem to acknowledge this request by locking their dumpsters and hiding their waste!
What is the next step?
Write to your local government and ask them to do something about it.
miljobyran@regeringen.ax
Talk to the shop management and protest their waste...
Dumpsterdive wherever you can!
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