Paris 2024 Food Waste Initiative

Paris 2024 organizing committee president Tony Estanguet signs an agreement with three French charities as they launch an initiative to limit food waste during the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The French Federation of Food Banks, Restos du Coeur and Le Chainon Manquant will join forces with Olympic organizers to collect unsold food at the Games and redistribute it.

An estimated 13 million meals will be served at the competition venues this summer.

Paris-2024 presents a plan to collect unsold food during the Olympic and Paralympic Games and redistribute it through associations.

Nearly 13 million meals and snacks will be served at competition sites and different villages during the Olympic (July 26 - August 11) and Paralympic (August 28 - September 8) Games, according to the Games organizing committee, Paris.

The system will be presented during a press conference at the Paris 2024 headquarters in Saint-Denis.

“The fight against food waste and the recovery of resources that are still consumable are key commitments of Paris 2024 for more responsible catering,” indicates Paris-2024.

Among the commitments made by the committee are reducing the amount of single-use plastic used and reusing catering equipment.

The organizers intend to halve the carbon footprint of meals taken during the four weeks of the Games compared to the London Games in 2012, by putting twice as much plant on the plates.

The network of 79 food banks and their branches - warehouses which store foodstuffs - have distributed 224 million meals through charitable associations for 2.4 million people helped in 2022.

The Missing Link collects surplus food which it redistributes to associations for vulnerable people.