Mon, 29 Aug, 2016 12:09:15 AM FTimes – STT Report, Aug 29  File Photo Lehtikuva. Many apple producers in the country are in a fix with this year’s bumper harvest.
When their own stocks are refilled, they offer their surplus apples to those who want them, for example, from a box beside the gate, or even through social media.
Facebook pages and groups dedicated to the distribution of apples can be found at least in the Helsinki metropolitan area as well as, for example, Satakunta.
On the site, anyone can indicate whether he or she would like to donate or receive apples.
The producers’ association leaders hope that there might even be more similar activities.
“To me, it would be a pretty good thing, if we could get some kind of national or municipality-specific [service],” said the association’s head of development, Arja Hopsu-Neuvonen.
In addition to individuals, the apples are going to, for example, hunting clubs, which take them to game-feeding sites.
File Photo Lehtikuva. Also, unemployment associations have been making food from donated apples or have preserved them.
According to Hopsu-Neuvonen, day-care centres and schools, however, are no longer accepting the apples.
The Helsinki Regional Environmental Services Authority (HSY) said the apples should be placed in waste-bins in small amounts.
A bucket of apples weighs about five pounds. So only a few bucketfuls would make a waste-bin too heavy to move by hand.
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