If I’m getting it right, they’re basically questioning the quantities mentioned and how Ecosia is presenting this whole thing.
The blog post says they saved 4000 tonnes, or 800 elephants, of potatoes from going to waste.
However the 4000-tonnen.de website - which seems to be a site that Ecosia have set up just for this problem of surplus potatoes - says that only 174 tonnes will have been delivered to Berlin:
Kommende Woche werden vorr. 132 Tonnen verteilt (nach 42 Tonnen in der ersten Woche). Dann wird es allerdings kalt - was für die Kartoffeln nicht gut ist - und mehr können wir auch nicht finanzieren.
The last sentence says it’s going to be cold which is bad news for spuds and in any case they are not able to finance any more.
So are they really just saving 174 out of 4000 tonnes, and yet somehow presenting it as a victory against food waste?
TBH it seems like a marketing stunt - not necessarily a bad thing, if they can draw attention to the difficulties of avoiding food waste. But still, they need to be honest and not deceitful or it can easily backfire.
The big unanswered question seems to be what’s going to happen to the remaining 3826 tonnes?
It’s still a victory, it’s better than nothing. Of course it would be great if all are saved, but might not be feasible with their resources or time limit. But yeah I agree, should have been mentioned.
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If I’m getting it right, they’re basically questioning the quantities mentioned and how Ecosia is presenting this whole thing.
The blog post says they saved 4000 tonnes, or 800 elephants, of potatoes from going to waste.
However the 4000-tonnen.de website - which seems to be a site that Ecosia have set up just for this problem of surplus potatoes - says that only 174 tonnes will have been delivered to Berlin:
The last sentence says it’s going to be cold which is bad news for spuds and in any case they are not able to finance any more.
So are they really just saving 174 out of 4000 tonnes, and yet somehow presenting it as a victory against food waste?
TBH it seems like a marketing stunt - not necessarily a bad thing, if they can draw attention to the difficulties of avoiding food waste. But still, they need to be honest and not deceitful or it can easily backfire.
The big unanswered question seems to be what’s going to happen to the remaining 3826 tonnes?
It’s still a victory, it’s better than nothing. Of course it would be great if all are saved, but might not be feasible with their resources or time limit. But yeah I agree, should have been mentioned.
I wonder if that Firefox thing which does translation offline can be extracted as a module and inserted into the Lemmy client or anything else.