Sustainable & regional

How Styrians can avoid waste at Christmas

Chamber Director Werner Brugner, direct marketer Michaela Friedl, Kommerzialrat Hans Roth, direct marketer Franz Kober and Manfred König, Managing Director of Saubermacher Austria (from left).(Bild: ALEXANDER DANNER)

Around 20 percent more waste is produced during the festive season, including all too often wasted food. Styrian experts give tips on what to look out for when consuming and separating waste.

Christmas is also a celebration of consumption - and that brings with it enormous mountains of waste, unfortunately also full of discarded food. With this in mind, the Styrian Chamber of Agriculture and the Styrian waste disposal company Saubermacher are once again appealing to all Styrians to "switch on their brains and use common sense" when buying presents and food and disposing of waste, as Chamber Director Werner Brugner puts it succinctly.

Styrians give regional gifts
"Anyone who buys from Styrian direct marketers has the advantage of getting food as and when they need it and in the quantity they want," says Brugner. The trend that Styrians are increasingly choosing regional specialties as gifts is encouraging.

However, there is still a lot of catching up to do when it comes to separating waste - around 20 percent more of which is generated during the holidays. "We still have around 60 percent of residual waste incorrectly thrown away," says Saubermacher boss Hans Roth. Yet residual waste is the most expensive to dispose of. "Ultimately, this causes economic damage." It is up to each and every Styrian to make Christmas more sustainable by shopping consciously and separating waste.