When you take a long haul flight you find that a large number of packaged food items ( Sugar, Salt,Peper and other items) are not used by very many passangers. If only these un used items are collected just before the meal by the Airlines hostess and given to any big Charity like Mother Teresa's or others -- these could serve a large number of very poor orphanage.
My estimate is that the cost food wasted on a transatlantic flight( which is recoverable) will easily serve a good sized village in Sudan/Darfour or other part of the world.
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It would not be cost effective, and likely unhealthy to send uneaten food to porrer people.
I totally agree with your idea, but logistacally I wonder how this would be put into operation. I can see this only working on flights that actually serve those countries most in need of this food, whose infra structure to implement this idea may well not be in place. Still, all it takes is some kind hearted air stewardess with the right contacts to implement this. Where this person would store the packaged items before it becomes a viable quantity for someone from a charity to come and pick it up remains a mystery to me. Still, I like the idea and so I voted in favour of it.