Actually tens of thousands of volunteers should help with the Summer Games in Tokyo. But because there are no spectators, they are not needed – just like provisions that have ended up in the trash.
Masses of unused food ended up in the trash at the Olympic Games. As the Japanese news network JNN of the television broadcaster TBS reported on Wednesday, lunch boxes, rice balls and bread were thrown away in large quantities at competition venues such as the O-Bento Olympic Stadium. They were intended for the originally planned tens of thousands of volunteers. But since spectators were excluded from the games because of the corona pandemic, many of the volunteers became superfluous.
Unused food becomes animal feed or energy from biomass
It had been neglected to adjust the amount of food deliveries accordingly, it said. A spokesman for the Japanese organizing committee admitted the problem on Wednesday. On the day of the opening ceremony alone, an estimated 4,000 food packages were thrown away. Because of the high workload for the volunteers, they had no way to eat the food, it said.
The spokesman said that the situation is being worked on by better coordinating orders with demand. The unused food was processed into animal feed or turned into energy from biomass. Japan’s Olympic organizers had made sustainability a priority at the Summer Games.

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