Containers in supermarkets: it's forbidden to take meals out of the trash

Hamburg Senator Steffen failed his plan to permit so-called containers. So it stays a criminal offense to additionally get edible meals from grocery store trash.

Daily, supermarkets throw away massive portions of unsold meals as a result of expiration or strain factors. Most of the discarded meals are nonetheless edible. However anybody who takes meals from the rubbish bins commits a theft or trespassing based on German legislation. Hamburg's senator for justice, Until Steffen, needed to vary it, however failed.

The removing of meals discarded from waste containers, the so-called container, stays a legal offense. Steffens' request for legalization rejected the Justice Ministers of the international locations that met by majority in Lübeck, as Steffen mentioned. As an alternative, they'd made another resolution in opposition to meals waste.

"He doesn't perceive man"

Steffen confirmed no sympathy for the choice: "Nobody understands why rubbish removing needs to be punished," the inexperienced politician mentioned. In Germany tens of millions of tons of meals are thrown away yearly. "The truth that persons are nonetheless being prosecuted, that they're taking motion in opposition to this waste when they're utilized in containers, I feel it's flawed."

In keeping with Steffen, his initiative failed as a result of opposition from ministries led by the EU. "As for local weather safety, you may also see how far the CDU and CSU have moved away from individuals and reject actuality," he criticized.