About 6 thousand kilos of fruits, vegetables and vegetables in good condition from the discarded stalls of the Central Market of Buenos Aires are recovered per day for human consumption from the Loss and Waste Reduction and Waste Valorization program, which feeds 36 thousand people per week. The program, which began in August 2020 in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, receives the products that sellers discard for not meeting commercial criteria and selects those that are still useful to be consumed and donated to more than 450 soup kitchens and families, while Vegetables in poor condition are used for compost. "We have three objectives: the disposal of food, the valorization of waste with compost and technical assistance to producers so that they reduce losses throughout the production, marketing and consumption chain," Fabián Rainoldi, head of the program, told Télam. of Loss and Waste Reduction and Waste Recovery. Rainoldi warned that "food waste is a big problem that we all have to address" and highlighted that since the program began operating, 36 thousand people have been fed per week.