{"id":14915,"date":"2012-11-24T05:40:14","date_gmt":"2012-11-24T04:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/?p=14915\/"},"modified":"2024-09-19T08:21:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T06:21:17","slug":"from-supermarket-to-trash-can-massive-food-waste-in-denmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/from-supermarket-to-trash-can-massive-food-waste-in-denmark\/","title":{"rendered":"From supermarket to trash can: Massive food waste in Denmark"},"content":{"rendered":"

237,000 tons, (think about it!), 237,000 tons of meat, pasta, sauce and a whole lot of other stuff, directly into the trash.<\/p>\n

Each Danish resident chucks out 42 kilos of edible food a year.<\/p>\n

An average Danish household (mom, dad, and two children) gets rid of \u2013 among others \u2013 dinner leftovers, old potatoes, the last sliced bread portion, and black, unappealing bananas, all worth an estimated DKK 10,000.<\/p>\n

Why the waste<\/h2>\n

The figures are according to the Danish Environmental Protection Agency (Milj\u00f8styrelsen).<\/p>\n

The fewer people that live at home, the worse it gets: For them, a dramatic 98.8 kg a year if you’re single \u2013 corresponding to around DKK 2,500 – gets tossed into the bin.<\/p>\n

Yet, most research overlooks the \u2018whys\u2019 of this waste.<\/p>\n

Food \u2026 will \u2026 spoil<\/h2>\n

\u00bbThere’s nothing more sad for a western consumer than to go to a supermarket and find it empty, and then you stop going there, because you can’t get what you want,\u00ab says Mickey Gjerris, an associate professor at the Consumption, Health and Ethics Unit of the University of Copenhagen.<\/p>\n

\u00bbWe don’t wonder: what do I already have that I can eat? But: What do I want to eat?\u00ab<\/p>\n

But if what we had yesterday isn’t what we want today, at some point it will spoil, he argues.<\/p>\n

Children don\u2019t learn<\/h2>\n

But who doesn’t remember grandma’s obsession with leftovers?<\/p>\n

\u00bbThat’s knowledge from a past generation, that is leaving us at a fast rate,\u00ab he adds.<\/p>\n

\u00bbIn cooking classes at school, children are supposed to learn about food, but they really don’t get anything. There’s a lack of knowledge about food because: why spend time teaching your children about how to respect the planet by using food as efficiently as possible, when we have so much and it is so cheap?\u00ab Mickey Gjerris asks rhetorically.<\/p>\n

Time to take a stand<\/h2>\n

Modifying throw-away food culture isn’t easy.<\/p>\n

\u00bbSomehow we built this perverted system where we have producers that are dependent on enormous amounts of waste. If you reduce waste in Denmark by one third, you’d have to reduce production by the same amount.\u00ab<\/p>\n

Maybe it’s time to take a stand and challenge the rule of the dustbins. But are you up for it?<\/p>\n

Hard to say. But our guide to ‘How to stop throwing away food’<\/a> will help you to use more of the food you have, save the environment, and save money.<\/p>\n

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But: What do I want to eat?\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>But if what we had yesterday isn’t what we want today, at some point it will spoil, he argues.<\/p>\n<h2>Children don\u2019t learn<\/h2>\n<p>But who doesn’t remember grandma’s obsession with leftovers?<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbThat’s knowledge from a past generation, that is leaving us at a fast rate,\u00ab he adds.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbIn cooking classes at school, children are supposed to learn about food, but they really don’t get anything. There’s a lack of knowledge about food because: why spend time teaching your children about how to respect the planet by using food as efficiently as possible, when we have so much and it is so cheap?\u00ab Mickey Gjerris asks rhetorically.<\/p>\n<h2>Time to take a stand<\/h2>\n<p>Modifying throw-away food culture isn’t easy.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbSomehow we built this perverted system where we have producers that are dependent on enormous amounts of waste. If you reduce waste in Denmark by one third, you’d have to reduce production by the same amount.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it’s time to take a stand and challenge the rule of the dustbins. But are you up for it?<\/p>\n<p>Hard to say. But our <a href=\"node\/17296\">guide to ‘How to stop throwing away food’<\/a> will help you to use more of the food you have, save the environment, and save money.<\/p>\n<p>universitypost@adm.ku.dk<\/p>\n<p><em>Stay in the know about news and events happening in Copenhagen by <a href=\"http:\/\/universitypost.dk\/newsletter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signing up for the University Post\u2019s weekly newsletter here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"ArticleEnd"},{"acf_fc_layout":"OtherStories","headline":"","hand_picked_posts":false,"references":false,"category":false,"theme":false,"number_of_posts":"4","style":"default"}],"feature_color":"","article_updated":""},"taxonomyData":{"category":[{"term_id":43,"name":"Culture","slug":"culture","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":43,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":562,"filter":"raw"}],"post_tag":[],"post_format":[],"expression":[{"term_id":15,"name":"News Article","slug":"news_article","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":15,"taxonomy":"expression","description":"","parent":0,"count":11485,"filter":"raw"}],"translation_priority":[{"term_id":5468,"name":"Optional","slug":"optional-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":5468,"taxonomy":"translation_priority","description":"","parent":0,"count":672,"filter":"raw"}]},"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/trash01-1280x766.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14915"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167487,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14915\/revisions\/167487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}