Loco helps with the delivery and logistics of food aid in Brussels. About twenty members of the organization placed empty crates in front of the store in Sint-Gillis. The activists also unfurled a banner with the text: “Food aid: hold-up of the start-ups?”. Whether it concerns Happy Hours Market, ‘Too Good To Go’ or ‘Phenix’, participants denounce the fact that these companies profit from unsold products.
Charity cannot be commercialized
Dominique Watteyne, Recovery Collective
“Since the arrival of these commercial companies, our associations receive almost no donations from supermarkets anymore, because these start-ups take them over directly at the source,” says Dominique Watteyne, member of ‘Collectif récup’ in Ixelles. “Charity cannot be commercialized.”
Due to the “lost in advance” competition with that “new lucrative market at the expense of the poorest”, associations are forced to organize food collections in order to offer quality products. The activists ask medium-sized and large supermarkets to strengthen their cooperation with food aid associations. According to them, the Brussels government should also take measures to encourage donations of unsold products and prevent their commercialization.
According to the Brussels start-up Happy Hours Market, there is “room and margin for every initiative” in the fight against food waste.
2023-12-21 19:03:35
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