Overview
- SPD parliamentary vice Esra Limbacher calls for making retailer donations financially easier and ending criminal penalties for rescuing edible food from store bins.
- Limbacher also proposes scrapping best-before dates for long-life items such as canned goods, tea, pasta and rice.
- The agriculture ministry reports the scale of waste but says it is not pursuing a new initiative to legalize containern after a prior federal effort failed over Länder unanimity.
- The nationwide 'Zu gut für die Tonne' week launches with events in about 30 cities and a Berlin action day scheduled for September 30, including Foodsharing activities.
- Consumer groups highlight overproduction and early shelf removal before best-before dates, while Berlin pilots redistribution via 'Kiez-Box' sites and a growing roundtable that now includes Dehoga and Die Tafel.