Answer to my question

Today, I'd like to answer these 4 questions.

2 What is merit of food bank for company?
3 What is merit of food bank for reciever?
4 What is merit of food bank for government?
7 What is demerit of food bank?

Answer to 2, For company, the merits are reduction of discard cost and environmental burden, and implementation of the social welfare activity.
According to Scond harvest japan, the average disposal cost is about 100 per kilogram, and by donating rather than dumping, companies can reduce their disposal costs.
Donating food is a kind of Corporate Social Responsibility. To do so, it means, a valuable impact on the community. And, According to LIFE AGAIN, to join food bank, if they don't waste food, they don't emit CO2、then it help global warming prevention.  This is a reduction of environmental burden.
So,  the answers are reduction of discaed cost and environmental burden and, implementation of the social welfare activity.

Answer to 3, For reciever, thanks to food bank, they can save their food cost. According to Second harvest japan, One mother and child support facility could reduce its food cost （average cost of one meal without food donation is ￥173.2、then, with food donation is ￥105.8）
Additionaly, the article of Yonezawa nippo says that reciever can realize links with the community.
So,  the answers are save food cost, and feeling links with the community.

Answer to 4, For government, they can reduce loss food, and they can do regional vitalization.
The difference between best before day and expiration date is easy to misunderstand for us.
They promote interplonation about this defference, and how to reserve food. This action also leads to reduction of food loss.
Also it is important for local communities to support the elderly. According to Second harvest japan, By encouraging citizens to volunteer, and by making use of food banks to support both the elderly and those in need, local governments can work with NPOs  to create a “food safety net” for their community.
Moreover, government can reduce their financial burden. Let me quote the web site of Food bank kagosima, "Using donated food to support welfare recipients can help reduce welfare budgets and enrich the nation as a whole."
So, the answers are they can reduce loss food, and they can do regional vitalization.

Answer to 7, the demerit is regional differences.
Food bank in big city tend to recieve more donation than food bank in rural area, this is a problem of food bank.


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