Donated food in the trash can

Residents of the Bahnweg in Dorfen are annoyed by the bags that have been thrown away from the board.

Dorfen

- For months, filled food bags have apparently been thrown away in public rubbish bins on the Bahnweg in Dorfen and used clothing, books, shoes and other rubbish have been thrown away on benches.

Local residents have been watching this for months.

“That's enough,” says Georg Scharl, who lives on Bahnweg, in an interview with our newspaper.

“It's a huge stall,” says the Dorfen real estate entrepreneur.

Trash baskets on the Bahnweg are regularly full to the brim with groceries, very close to the food counter at the Dorfener Tafel.

On site, Scharl shows our newspaper one of the full rubbish bins not far from his house.

The entrepreneur is outraged that donated food is being thrown away.

In the rubbish there was also a bag filled with groceries, canned goods and sweets, which had probably been handed out in the nearby Dorfen table.

"I'm glad we heard about the matter," said Ruth Wildgrube, chairwoman of the Dorfen neighborhood help, which also runs the food bank.

The behavior "annoys me very much".

So far, however, no one had any knowledge of the fact that whole bags were thrown away.

At the table, people will "now consider how we can counteract this and what could be done".

But Wildgrube is also certain that there are very few isolated cases.

"The vast majority of Tafel customers are very, very happy and grateful for the help of the Tafel, especially now in the Corona period."

The chairwoman sees the restrictions during the pandemic as a problem.

Because of the narrow space in the grocery store, clearances could not be maintained and customers could no longer choose their own items.

The volunteer Tafel employees currently only hand out filled bags.

But one is happy to be able to keep the table open at all now.

He cannot understand the behavior of these people at all, says Scharl.

“Some donate, and others just throw it away,” says the resident of Dorfen.

If someone doesn't need things or maybe doesn't like them, “then you can give them back or pass them on”.

Scharl reports that all kinds of things are regularly disposed of in the middle of the city on and on the benches along the railway path.

Big bags are usually filled with things like shoes, clothing, books, household items and other things.

However, the Bahnweg is not the right place to store things like this in the wild, even if it is thought that other people could take something with them.

The city's building yard employees would drive through the railroad twice a week to empty full rubbish bins and dispose of the things left behind.

During the brief conversation on Bahnweg, passers-by who live in the district also came by.

They confirmed Scharl's observations: "Yes, this has been going on for months."

So far, neither Scharl nor other residents have been able to observe who exactly throws away the things in the trash cans.

One has now announced that he would like to "keep an eye on it".

The core idea of ​​the food banks is to prevent the destruction of food that food retailers would dispose of anyway because of the expiry date, explains Wildgrube.

Throwing away donated food is absolutely contrary to this idea.