Airlines team up with OzHarvest to deliver meals to the hungry
An Australian food organisation has teamed up with airlines to deliver uneaten, first-class meals to the hungry.
Successful food enterprise OzHarvest already takes excess food from more than 2000 organisations and is now collecting about 200-400kg of unused food at Brisbane Airport every day.
Uneaten sandwiches, apples, muesli bars and biscuits account for most of the food and generally comes from cancelled flights, the organisation told ABC News.
"Pretty much anything you're seeing on an airline is something we can redistribute, as long as it's still in a fit state to eat," OzHarvest Queensland state manager Cameron Hickey said.
There's many delicious meals in first class that aren't eaten, which often means there's excess food along the supply chain."
After the organisation collects the food from various companies in Australia, it is then distributed to more than 800 charities.
OzHarvest was set up in 2004 by Ronni Kahn and now feeds people in nine cities throughout Australia.
"There's eight to 10billion dollars worth of food wastage every year," Kahn said, "and we plan on reducing this by 50 per cent by 2025 - that's the goal."
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Image credit: Instagram / OzHarvest
First appeared on Stuff.co.nz.
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