As much as 12.6% of food
cooked for school meals is left in plates becoming waste. As
much as 11% of first courses is wasted, 13% of second courses,
22% of vegetables, 10% of fruit and 10% of bread.
In money terms 0.18 cents per meal go into the bin out of
an average cost of 4.6 euros a meal, according to a pilot study
carried out by Oricon, the Observatory for Collective
restauranting and Nutrition, presented in Rome for a meeting
entitled "Collective catering and the heritage of Expo. The
value of food, from the struggle against waste to food
education".
The probe was carried out monitoring 64,000 school meals
served to 7000 pupils aged 3 to 11.
As many as 12 million meals for the poor could be prepared
if the 18 cents wasted in school meals could be eliminated,
commented Carlo Scrarsciotto, Oricon president.
"Reducing waste is possible and should be put into practise
as emerged from Expo Milano 2015".
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