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The Turkish Government has been very involved in trying to promote ways to prevent food loss and waste. The Union of Municipalities of Türkiye (TBB) has developed an action plan as well as the Save Your Food campaign to increase awareness of the issues around food loss and waste. In addition to other segments of the campaign, one part is the launch of a competition to collect ideas for raising awareness on how to reduce food waste and recover foodstuffs. A number of the activities that came out of the proposals have been implemented. Among them, one of the most successful projects implemented in different municipalities consists of transforming foodstuffs about to expire and considered unfit for human consumption into food for stray animals. Since Türkiye has a large stray animal population, this has been considered a success on a number of fronts both in terms of food loss and waste and animal protection.

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