Rescued vegetables allay South Africans' hunger brought on by Covid-19 pandemic
JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - Left jobless by the pandemic and a fire that destroyed her sewing machine, Ms Nomaqhawe Dlomo polished off a hefty portion of maise meal and vegetables dished out at a community centre in a Johannesburg township. Days earlier, the cabbage and pumpkin on her plate were strewn in a pile of discards from South Africa's largest fresh produce market, waiting to be incinerated. Around one-third of food produced in South Africa ends up in landfill, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature, amounting to around 10 million tonnes of waste per year. "People throw away food that w...
Source: straitstimes.com