Food use and recycling through donation in Mikkeli in years 2015-2020. Food recycling from retail to use in Mikkeli in years 2015-2020. Information obtained via e-mail from organisations that distribute food to the needy. Food is gathered from almost all Mikkeli grocery stores and other stores and then distributed to the needy. The food is collected from stores before best before date or expiration date and then distributed in several donation points. Food is safe and edible, but not wanted to be sold in the store anymore.

Distributed number of bags are counted in the organisations. The weight in the documents are an average weight of the donation bag. ViaDia Mikkeli average weight of bag is 5kg and Mikkelin Työttömät the average weight of the donation bag is 7kg. Mikkelin Työttömät gave the information as how many bags are distributed in the timeline of 2015-2020, this is why the yearly amount is same, since it is devided evenly within the years.