Disco Soupe encourages citizen participation and food waste prevention

According to a study conducted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 1/3 of all food produced for human consumption worldwide is either lost or wasted. Each year 1.3 billion tons of perfectly edible, safe, and nutritious food is not eaten. For instance, vegetables are rejected because of little aesthetic irregularities; bumps, or spots, or because the vegetable does not meet the required form, size, and color standards.

This good practice encourages active citizen participation by organizing gatherings in public places to chop unsellable and rejected produce like fruits and vegetables (which would otherwise have been wasted) and made into soups and salads in huge quantities and enjoyed with music.
Any group can organize and implement Disco Soupes and raise awareness about food waste. Organizers of Disco Soupes implement local ecosystems to gather food waste and to borrow required equipment. Participants are attracted by the fun of joining a Disco Soupe and end up understanding better the concept of food waste and how to minimize waste with easy recipes. Individual and collective solutions can thus be adopted to prevent food waste, Markets and supermarkets involved are diminishing their amount of food waste which reduces waste disposal costs.