STORY: 99 percent of this carrot cake, which was brought to the Café Überrig, is saved. Only the icing sugar with which Carolin Stanzl refines the cake has been bought. The Café Remaining in Freising is a place that wants to draw attention to food waste. Many of those involved in the non-profit association behind the café have been saving food for a long time. O-TON CAROLIN STANZL – CAFÉ OTHER: “We always did it in the back room and nobody noticed how much is really thrown away every day here in Freising, in Germany. We thought we needed a place where a becomes a bit more visible. We want to show how much is thrown away. We want to cook and bake from things that were actually thrown away.” The concept is simple: a so-called food-sharing fair divider stands in the middle of the café. There everyone can share saved or leftover food with other people. For example, food that you no longer need. Other customers can then take these foods and use them at home – free of charge, of course. There are also many volunteers who bring home-baked cakes or prepare something from the food that is in the fair divider, as well as the team from the Café rest themselves. Whether drinks or food, you pay what you think is reasonable. The Bavarian consumer advice center is also aware that the problem of food waste is getting out of hand. O-TON DANIELA KREHL – VERBRAUCHERZENTRALE BAYERN EV / DEPARTMENT OF FOOD AND NUTRITION: “In Germany eleven million tons of food are thrown away. Worldwide it is around 1/3 of the food that we produce that then ends up in the garbage. And that’s natural an insane waste that we urgently need to curb.” Especially in the household, things need to be tackled, because this is where most of the food ends up in the trash every day, says Krehl. The best-before date does not mean that the food has to be thrown away. This is exactly the subject of the Association “Mammalade für Karla eV”. The fruit spreads are made from fruit that is overripe and therefore no longer makes it onto the market. O-TON CLAUDIA BACH – MAMMALADE FOR KARLA: “Of course, if fruit is moldy, it won’t more processed. But as long as it’s still good, you can handle it. And that’s what we do here. It also means that we don’t offer the standard fruit spreads that the supermarket usually has. We mostly have mixtures, including very original mixtures that you can’t buy in the supermarket. And there are different mixes every week, because we don’t even know which fruit we’re going to get. There’s something new every week.” With “Mammalade für Karla” there is another idea: the women’s shelter KARLA 51 in Munich is supported by selling the homemade fruit spreads. The aim of the association is to develop a network between homeless women and children, corresponding institutions, fruit donors and sales outlets in order to collect money and donations from the sale of the manufactured products.