Ankara Metropolitan Municipality will host the photography exhibition themed "Grown to be Thrown in the Trash" until February 15, in order to reduce food losses throughout the country and prevent food waste. The photography exhibition, organized in cooperation with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, to raise awareness in the fight against waste, met with the citizens of the Capital at the Red Crescent Metro Art Gallery.
Ankara Metropolitan Municipality, which has signed projects that prioritize community and environmental health, continues its efforts to raise awareness about food waste.
The Metropolitan Municipality, which hosted the photo exhibition with the theme "Grown to be Trash" in cooperation with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, at the Red Crescent Metro Art Gallery, aims to reduce food losses and waste throughout the country, and to take national and global measures. and aims to pass it on to future generations.
PHOTOS DESCRIBE STAGES OF ROOT AND WASTE OF FOOD
ABB Deputy Secretary General Faruk Çınkı, Head of Health Affairs Department Seyfettin Aslan, Head of Culture and Social Affairs Department Ali Bozkurt, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization Turkey Deputy Representative Dr. The residents of Başkent also showed great interest in the opening of the exhibition, in which Ayşegül Selışık and the Head of the European Union Harmonization Department Zeynep Özkan also attended.
Head of Health Affairs Department Seyfettin Aslan emphasized that they aim to raise awareness in the society and to encourage activities at all levels to prevent food waste by hosting an exhibition of 32 photographs by Austrian artist Klaus Pichler depicting the various stages of decay of food products and excessive food waste. found:
“In our world where natural resources are limited and the population is expected to increase rapidly, it is our responsibility to future generations to take national and global measures to reduce food losses and waste. In order to achieve this goal, all stakeholders need to cooperate in a planned manner. BELKA A.Ş., the subsidiary company of ABB, which opened a booth here. on the other hand, established the Renewable Energy and Environmental Technologies Campus, which will be a first in Turkey, and this facility was built on a total area of 13 thousand 400 square meters. With the slogan 'Let's give back to the soil what we get from the soil', we plan to collect the grass cut from the parks and gardens in Ankara in the summer, and the fruit and vegetable wastes in the form of vegetables in winter, turn them into organic fertilizer by composting and reuse them in parks and gardens.”
OBJECTIVE: RAISING AWARENESS OF FOOD WASTE
FAO Deputy Representative for Turkey Dr. Ayşegül Selışık said, “One third of the food produced is lost. It also has a very high cost. For this reason, we need to waste less” and underlined that they share a lot on social media about why people will not waste their food and how to prevent this waste, Zeynep Özkan, Head of European Union Harmonization Department, gave the following information:
“We are together with both the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and the Ankara Metropolitan Municipality in another event where the 'Protect the food, protect the table' campaign that we started in 2020 reached the consumer again. This exhibition taking place at the Metro Station is really important. Because we went through a long preparation phase. For the first time in Turkey, we published the action plan of the strategy plan to reduce, prevent and recycle food loss waste. We also broke the Guinness world record. We took word from 790 thousand people and this award was given to Turkey.”
Yaşar Kurçözey, who visited the exhibition, shared his impressions of the remarkable exhibition, “To protect the land means to protect the seeds. This exhibition is very useful in terms of raising awareness in people. I am totally against waste of any kind. Waste harms both the country's economy and nature, as well as our own budget. I invite people to be more sensitive.”
BELKA INC. EXHIBITS ITS OWN NATURAL PRODUCTS
BELKA A.Ş, one of the subsidiaries of the Metropolitan Municipality, also exhibits the chips, pellets and fertilizer varieties it produces in its own stand.
While it is aimed to organize similar events periodically in order to raise awareness on the causes and solutions of food loss and waste, to provide trainings on the prevention and reduction of waste, and to increase the awareness level of consumers, the exhibition themed "Protect your food, protect your table" will continue until February 15, 2022. It will be open to the public in the gallery.
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