Despite its well-established recycling movement, Europe's most populous nation still generates enormous amounts of unnecessary waste, from usable consumer products to still-edible food. Innatura has saved about 580 tonnes of products from the furnaces since Kronen founded the company four years ago, she calculates. Germans throw away more than 18 million tonnes of food every year, or 313 kilos every single second, according to charity World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Any food is welcome, from yoghurts that might otherwise get thrown away before holidaymakers set off, to leftover rolls after a hard day's work at the bakery. But "consumers aren't the only ones responsible" for addressing the shocking levels of waste in Western societies, Bowinkelmann argues.

Source: The Local April 13, 2017 07:30 UTC