Every day, tons of school food is thrown away and the biggest food waste is the so-called serving waste, according to the National Food Agency. To reduce this, Ronneby's dietary manager has now been commissioned by responsible politicians to review whether the municipality can start selling school food that was not consumed during the day.

- I'll see if we can sell the leftover food in schools after serving to parents, school staff or older students, says Elena Johansson, diet manager Ronneby municipality.

Shall be presented for the summer

Ronneby is now looking at how other municipalities in the country are already doing this.

- The most common thing is that you bring your own food box and then you have to fill it and then swish in money, says Elena Johansson.

The diet manager's job should be ready for the summer and then the politicians will decide whether to introduce it or not by the end of the year.

Seen in other municipalities

Olofström Municipality is also looking at the possibility of selling leftover school food.

- There was a wish for this from the students in high school that it would be good for the environment to be able to buy home leftover food and that it will be cheap. We have started to look at whether this would be possible and what is needed, says Joakim Nilsson, diet manager Olofström's municipality.

The diet department at Karlskrona municipality has also investigated the issue, but where the municipal lawyer has concluded that it would go against the municipal competence to sell leftover food.

"Right now, this is the assessment we have to start with, but the next step is to take it through politics to continue to look at the possibilities for this," says Hanna Bengtsson, diet manager Karlskrona Municipality.

See more about this in the clip above.