Food “rescued”, now in jail: A Viennese man was sentenced to four weeks for fishing edible food out of a garbage bin. Greenpeace is furious and calls for changes in the law.
Dumpsters, loosely translated as dumpster fishermen, are the idealists who search for edible food in the fresh waste of supermarkets around the world to save it from spoilage.
A young Viennese man also did this with his girlfriend, taking food out of plastic containers, some of which were originally shrink-wrapped, for their own breakfast and lunch table. The man has reported the crime and has now been sentenced to a four-week suspended prison sentence (not legally binding) for theft.
“Saving food that would have been destroyed anyway in a waste incinerator cannot and should not be a crime,” complains agricultural expert Sebastian Theissing-Matei of Greenpeace in response to the verdict, which is not yet legally binding. According to estimates, 26 kilos of food ends up in the trash every second (!) in this country.
According to Greenpeace, that is 830,000 tons per year. This means: Food worth 1.4 billion euros goes up in flames in waste incinerators because the expiry date has been exceeded. Theissing-Matei has had enough after the Viennese conviction: he calls for an immediate change in the law.
Source: Krone
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