KARIMNAGAR, MAY 04, 2025: In a unique campaign to address food wastage at social functions, Jyothinagar Aryavysya Abhyudaya Sangham (JAVAS) in Karimnagar has embarked upon an ambitious task of educating people to reduce the wastage of food at function halls and other parties in Karimnagar.
At a function organised in Jyothinagar in Karimnagar, the JAVAS had erected signboards at the entrance and other prominent places, including the dining hall, educating people to avoid the wastage of food. An illuminated signboard at the function reads to avoid the use of plastic plates and glasses, serve the food as per their requirement and avoid wastage. It also states that the food was precious and the volunteers of JAVAS would be stationed at waste bins to avoid the wastage of food.
In order to raise awareness about the importance of avoiding wastage of food and respect the farming community, who toil for several months to produce the food, the JAVAS campaign has evoked a good response in Karimnagar town, and the people are expecting that the campaign will spread throughout the integrated Karimnagar district.
Eminent physician Dr D Raghu Raman congratulated the JAVAS for launching a unique campaign to avoid the wastage of food. Stating that the people have been spending a huge amount on lavish lifestyle functions by serving several dishes to the guests during the marriage functions, he reminded that the organisers of the function are forgetting the wastage of precious food, for which several lakhs of people are starving in the world.
Appealing to the organisers of various functions to avoid the wastage of food by serving the same to the orphanages, old-age homes and others, he said that the environmental implications of food waste are equally alarming. Like many other countries, India faces the adverse effects of greenhouse gas emissions associated with food production and waste. Methane emissions from decomposing food waste in landfills contribute to climate change, he added.
