August 12, 2021 19:21 PM
[Netease Sports News on the 12th](At least 130,000 foods were discarded in the East Olympics #, the organizing committee apologized for the waste) On the 8th local time, Toshiro Muto, secretary-general of the Tokyo Olympics Organizing Committee, apologized at the press conference: “For Yi I apologize for the large amount of food losses that occurred in the beginning…” It is reported that from July 3, 20 venues in the Olympic Games have discarded about 130,000 meals, including staff lunch boxes. The Organizing Committee of the East Olympics has admitted at the end of last month that only on the day of the opening ceremony, the number of volunteers due to the epidemic dropped sharply, and about 4,000 unexpired foods prepared in advance were discarded.
The Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee provides meals for volunteers participating in the Olympics and other related staff, and supplies thousands of meals a day. According to the video provided by Japan’s JNN TV station, near the National Stadium, the staff opened a box of untouched chopsticks and dumped the food directly into the trash can, including unpacked bread. Witnesses at the scene told reporters that the number of boxes and food discarded is staggering, and this situation is continuing to happen.
Witnesses were very sad when they saw it. He said: “If the food comes out, it should not be thrown away, but should be distributed to people in difficulty. I hope the organizer can consider other solutions besides discarding.” And the production of boxed lunches. The other said: “We can’t handle these boxed lunches, unless we throw them away before the expiration date, there is nothing we can do.”
Why is there a phenomenon of waste? Affected by the epidemic and other factors, there are basically no spectators in the major stadiums of this Olympic Games, and the number of volunteers has decreased, but the number of lunch boxes has not been adjusted accordingly.
Japan’s Cabinet Secretariat Olympic and Paralympic Affairs Bureau admitted on the 27th that food waste is true. The Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee also apologized to the public for this and said that it would immediately make rectifications.
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