Angers city wants its inhabitants to take more care of food

Indication of the deterioration of the local economic context? Angers city took recently two initiatives regarding the food habit of the inhabitants. First, the town council launched a campaign against the food wasting. Angers want to catch the attention of the public to the issue through hustle and bustle in open air markets, exhibitions and even lectures in schools. According to national studies, a French household throws away food for an amount of 175 € per year.


That figure does not include the wastes coming from the professionnals, i.e. agricultural products directly thrown away without the stage of the stalls in stores. At the same time, the Centre communal d'action sociale, an authority set up by the Angers town council towards low income publics, enlarges another campaign : the "united string bags". 

Designed to retrieve the unsold food items at the Marché d'intérêt national of Angers and to resell them at a price correlated to the resources of the families, the operation will be deployed to six Angers districts in 2012 and more next year. While food becomes more costly along the years, would be more numerous the Angers inhabitants facing difficulties fo food themselves properly? The worsening of daily conditions for humble persons is not yet overcame. (Credit pictures : Jardins de cocagne, Ccas of Angers and French ministry of agriculture)