Overview
- Official data show Spanish households discarded 1,097 million kilos in 2024, averaging 24 kilos per person, with fruits and vegetables, bread and dairy the most wasted items.
- The Northwest zone, which includes Galicia, posted a 0.7% year-over-year increase and roughly 119 million kilos of household waste, largely unused products.
- Galicia has tendered a €168,000 contract to measure waste across the supply chain in 2026 and to deliver a 2027 action plan geared to EU goals that require a 30% cut by 2030.
- In Argentina, the Banco de Alimentos de Buenos Aires reported a record year with more than 7,000 tonnes recovered through a network of 1,280 organizations that feed over 354,000 people daily.
- The Buenos Aires food bank highlights traceable logistics staffed by more than 7,000 people at its Benavídez center, while noting that unrecoverable VAT makes donating surplus costlier for many companies.