Food outlet: After organic and vegan comes now saved

In Germany's only food outlet in Berlin, SirPlus sells food that would otherwise end up in the trash. Does founder Raphael Fellmer compete with the boards?

Food outlet: After organic and vegan comes now saved
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  • Page 1 — after organic and vegan is now saved
  • Page 2 — almost 40 percent of food is thrown away
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    Erika Müller is waiting for almost 20 minutes * patiently until she can pay at ticket office, so big is rush in small shop. In your shopping basket are organic spelt penne, vegetable spread, a table of chocolate and EineTüte chips. Just under a euro you have to pay for it, regular it would certainly be at least seven, eight euros. The Gemüsevon a organic farm from region and chocolate and chips Sindfair traded. "Here re are always good things that mansonst can only buy expensive in KaDeWe," says 71-year-old. Only drawback: minimum durability istüberschritten.

    Welcome to Germany's first and so far only lifesaver for food products. It is called "SirPlus", a word from English word surplus ("surplus") and prefix Sir, based on service. Here food is sold, Eigentlichim rubbish landed wärenund refore cut only half cost. Most of products have exceeded expiration date almost or recently, ors do not conform to standard: asparagus tips have carrotss and are too small and crooked.

    To anticipate it: selling expired groceries is legal. "A durability date is keinVerbrauchsdatum", it says on large Schildernim business. The seller must check wher goods are Nochgenießbar and mark m accordingly. Therefore, DasMindesthaltbarkeitsdatum is also right next to price.

    Derkleine shop in Berlin-Wilmersdorf hit a nerve: Since opening in autumn 2017, several hundred people come every day, says founder Raphael Fellmer. The 34-Jährigehilft is just going to clean up a shelf for his co-worker, a young man from Syria. The snacks are popular drag customers in business – like student who takes ZehnTüten for next WG party. "They keep ewigund cost four euros per bag, here I get m for 30c," he says. Fellmer grins, gives man his hand and says, "Thank you for being here."

    An outlet for food products

    SirPlusfunktioniert as a food outlet: company buys and sells Dieausrangierte goods in a favorable way. DieProdukte usually originate directly from producers as well as from wholesalers and retailers, such as Metro retail chain. For dieist cooperation with start-up is straightforward: food rescuers holendie were off and even pay a "small fee" for it. The supermarkets thus save disposal costs. "Außerdemkönnen you do something for a sustainable use of resources and its social responsibility," says Fellmer. Before cooperate, he looked at ir business model exactly – after all, he did not want corporations to abuse cooperation of his Retterladen as a mere Greenwashing.

    ABERNIMMT SirPlus not tablets basis away? Finally, social projects also rely on food donations. Customer Müller says that she only receives a small pension that is just over DerGrundsicherung. She would not go to a blackboard for needy – shame is too great. Fellmer also rejects suspicion. On one SirPlus food from DenKooperationspartnern only gets off when tablets were already re. Zumanderen donate a part of goods mselves. Moreover, tablets Dürftenviele not accept any food with abgelaufenemMindesthaltbarkeitsdatum. "Many of our partners have Sogroße batches that tablets have to fit because of enormous quantities," says founder.

    The commercial group Metro, which has been supplying tablets for years, also stresses that SirPlus does not compete with or social projects. The trader wants bis2025 to reduce his waste of goods by half. For this purpose, cooperation with Retterladen is a useful addition to panels, explains Metro.

    Date Of Update: 23 April 2018, 12:02
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