Food waste: Expired meat gets a second chance

2024-04-06 22:00:00

– Expired meat gets a second chance

Numerous tons of unsold meat from supermarkets still end up in the biogas plant. Denner and Caritas now want to have found a solution. Other retailers are hesitant.

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Meat counter in a supermarket. Expired meat still often ends up in the biogas plant.

Foto: Laurent Gillieron (Keystone)

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• Every year, 5,000 tons of meat are thrown away in Swiss retail because it could not be sold.

• Denner and Caritas have developed a process to reuse expired meat and sell it to those affected by poverty.

• Other retailers are reluctant, even though the process would pass food inspection controls.

If the weather turns out to be rainier than predicted, there is often only one use for the grilled meat that has been over-purchased in retailers: conversion into biogas. Upon request, Swiss retailers do not provide exact figures on how many tons of meat end up in the biogas plant. According to research by “K-Tipp” from 2022, 5,000 tons of meat are disposed of every year in retail alone.

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