I tried to eat only food waste for a week
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- Опубликовано: 24 сен 2020
- Is it possible to eat only food saved from the bin for a week? And why do we waste so much food in the first place? We went all in to find out.
Author: Kiyo Dörrer
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I worked at a Trader Joe's, and that company has a food shares program. Every crew member had the responsibility to sort any unsellable item to shares, compost, or trash. Shares go to a food bank, compost goes to a green energy plant. We sent all of our cardboard and much of our plastic off to recycling. It rarely felt like extra work. The system was so well established that simply trashing everything would have been more of a hassle.
My company started keeping a bin on a weighing scale to show the amount of food employees waste during lunch times. That helped drastically reduce it, but never made it zero. It was usually filled with unappetizing items from a meal. Those who got their own lunch, rarely added to this. So I guess cooking your own food, helps reduce food waste, at least at an individual level.
Any left over food here is fed to the chickens ( chooks , now that gives away were I am from). They lays eggs to eat and make fertilizer for the garden to grow more food. If it is not suitable to feed the chickens with, it can be used to feed my worm farm that makes fertilizer. I fit is not suitable for the worms either, it can be composted with waste paper, cardboard, and garden waste, which can also be used as garden fertilizer.
Very interesting documentary! In order to reduce food waste and economic loss, here in Italy many supermarkets started to sell food that is about to expire at 50% discount. Most of it is perfectly good.
Thank you. That's a good idea - all supermarkets should do that! Would you buy these items?
I've already bought them. They're a very good bargain! :-)
They do something here in England too, but some stores now dedicate much more space to it, and reduce a tiny amount from the price, maybe only 10% as people see the yellow sticker and go for it. And at Christmas it has gotten to the point where people spend ages in the stores on Christmas Eve, walking around with turkeys in the trolley waiting for the announcement to say that turkeys are now discounted. My auntie was in a store like this and the managers made an announcement to say that turkeys wouldn't be going on offer at all to try and encourage people to check out and leave the store.
That's most of what I buy!
This is an excellent video. I dumpster dove a few times. It wasn't that I was hungry. I was simply upset that perfectly good food was being thrown out. I grew up on a farm where my family raised and grew nearly everything we ate. Excess food was canned for use in the winter. There was no waste. We basically only bought paper products from a store. I still live frugally
I really love these kind of videos and they certainly give me more and more to think about. This moment when this channel reminds me there's still a lot to do so we have time to do all of that before it is late. Seriously, amazing content. Thanks DW.
I work at a grocery store in the U.S. The time and effort that goes into rescuing food is considered a loss, so doing anything to save food can be seen as financially detrimental. Luckily, the small chain that employs me has a couple of people in the corporate structure who are at least concerned about food waste. This can be diluted by personality differences at the lower levels, so some stores might be doing more or less than mine. When I joined my department, we as a store had been doing quite poorly, to say the least. We've since put in significant effort to improve our store's handling of food waste, though there is still too much work left undone.
The first step we take is constantly checking dates: my company wants us to pull product off the shelf about five days before expiration. We have a foodshelf partner who, after we sort and box the food, can take a fair bit. The leftovers from our bakery and a lot of our produce will go right to them. Dairy, my department, and the deli/meat departments have stricter constraints and can't always donate product.
Product not donated goes in the "pig buckets". We work with an organization that takes 50 gallon drums of food waste and feeds them to pigs. We spend hours removing food from packaging - dairy products are the biggest time-takers - and dumping it into the buckets. This process sickens me because, even though the food isn't going to a landfill, we've still created an incredible amount of waste just not eating the food. This process is also a large part of what creates frustration for management. They don't want to pay for people to throw things out, we should be doing more profitable things. I continue to maintain that we must invest in the earlier parts of the process, as well as pay better attention to sales and product offerings to better reduce the food we waste. It is an ongoing process.
"They don't want to pay for people to throw things out, we should be doing more profitable things"...like cleaning out bins, nicely arranging newer food, throwing it out after it gets picked over, and then starting all over again. Something is wrong with this picture.
IMHO, fresh produce from discounter like Aldi, Lidl is not helping. Get 1kg of carrot, 500g of capsicum, 500g of chicken means you are stuck with the food for at least 3 days. Society should start thinking about "socialise kitchen" that let people bring the surplus food they bought, share , distribute, prepare it, etc.
Yes, the business model of discounters is not helping with the food waste problem. Sharing the surplus of food is a good way to tackle the issues...Thanks for your comment, we're glad you liked our video.
10:55
HEROIC! We need more people like this man!
We throw away so many things, perfectly good food, while people starve in our streets, not “poor people in 3rd world nations”, I’m talking about our neighbors and people in our community. THIS IS CRIMINAL!
I could absolutely live off the stuff that’s trashed in my small town. Not just food, but clothes and shoes. I have 14 bicycles that I saved from just my neighborhood, 67 homes… 14 bicycles in less than 6 months. Come on!
Not to mention garden centers… I haul load after load of lumber and building materials from one Lowe’s, I haul even more plants away from there. They literally throw perfectly good plants in the dump! They don’t recycle the plastic pots, the plants AND soil go straight to the landfill! All of the plants and sold in plastic pots, but many are also placed into “cover pots”, fancy looking ceramic bowls (pots have drainage holes, these don’t) go right into the trash too! Nothing wrong with them, they’re always made in China. Can you imagine the waste of just that?!? They bring in materials from afar, turn it into ceramic, then glaze them, they ship them across the globe to the US, then they simply set a plant in them and ship the plants across America… only for that plant to sit on a shelf for 2 weeks, they often die since they drown with no drainage… and then throw it away! It’s not perishable or broken. Not to mention all that goes into making the soil for those plants, the damn fertilizer that’s used on them, pesticides fungicides even herbicide, gallons of water, human labor, plus the plants are grown in greenhouses that are made of plastic and expensive to heat AND cool. All this stuff has to be transported back and forth so loads of fuel.
It turns my stomach! They’ve “kicked me out” of Lowe’s (even tho I’m already outside, in the dumpster) about 40 times this year, the cops get called and come out, that’s even more waste! They threaten me with jail, I leave, and often times I go home and unload, only to right back to the same dumpster to load more.
Fuck em! I call all that criminal!
Oh yea, 1/3 of our landfill is compostable and beneficial overall, yet when buried all that compost goes anaerobic and then produces methane!
🤮 atleast we won’t do it this way much longer!
Because it will literally destroy us!
In the meantime we gunna make that money.
We are so gross!
My mom raised my sister and I to use food wisely. This meant saving food as leftovers.
I'm from the Philippines and I think I'm the only one buying the less pretty vegetables and fruits to save them from being thrown away.
🇵🇭 I think we buy the "ugly" veggies and fruits all the time 😆😆
It's always easier to throw out prepared food that someone else made, even at the best restaurants. Make more of your own, just the way you like it, and keep track of leftovers. You may throw out almost nothing.
“ If every pork chop were perfect, we wouldn’t have hot dogs 🌭!”
We have Imperfect Foods here in California and local CBC which sells ugly produce at a more local level. I usually get the ugliest produce at the farmer’s market too, they often offer a discount for taking it off their hands.
I shop at a bulk foods store so I only buy as little or as much as I need, plan around what needs to be eaten first, and compost my scraps. I'm learning to pickle things too!
8.44 I also used to replant the "stubs" of onion etc to grow in a tiny (2m neglected flowerbed, the rest of my approx 10×8 m terrace space was tiled) and could get fresh new growth very fast. No seeds needed only surrounded by cut offs/compost n tucked down they'll grow again if given some time n not too much sun. Edit 11.24 the waste and poverty should be illegal. We all need food. But instead of donating or even leaving the trolleys out with a big sign "free" all the supermarkets care about is their sales. That should also be illegal or at least a social stigma n them giving it should be celebrated...that way they might do that for good publicity at least...
Exposing a companies crime of wanting to make a profit, and if they gave food away it would cut into their sales.
Grocers can do a better job at selling imperfect looking food in designated area of the store.
So in the United States alot of companies are apprehensive to give away food that is out of date because of the liability of making someone sick, they could get sued. Down the street from my house in Florida theres a church that gives away food every Monday and it is PACKED! I am talking hundreds and hundreds of people lined up from 8am - 3pm. My city isnt a poor city but it just shows how bad food costs are for many people and this waste of food makes it so the prices stay high. Also in Florida there are orange dumps. Thats where they take truck loads of oranges and just pour them on the ground to let them spoil to keep the prices of oranges stable.
Bees gave their lives pollinating those dumped oranges 😰
Maybe it would be a good idea for the US to have a fund set up to protect companies that give away food in case they are sued. Of course they should also have some safety standards in place to protect consumers.
Used to have local bakeries and pizzerias have dumpsters available for diving, but there seems to have been a crackdown. Big wasters like Whole foods may be donating ugly produce, but I've also noticed stores now have onsite compactors instead of dumpsters suggesting teh fate is not so wholesome.
I really loved this video. Maybe you can make another video about composting organic waste.
I'm really enjoying this video, guys, thank you! The tip on 8:43 is very useful, the trick with the lettuce? Maybe ideas like that could be a video on their own! :)
This is a great documentary- should have many more views and likes!
In East Europe, we can do jam or something from "ugly" vegetables, fruits or berries.
love this video so much !! food waste should be illegal in all countries. I have been emailing and contacting all people in my local town, province and government to get them to do something.
13.18 ps used to dumpster dive almost every evening (there was a group of us, that met outside and waited together after closing for staff to come out with the trolley) ...had to charge my old phone anyway...it was great. Fresh berries, vegan (expensive) yoghurt, fruit/veg, bread...off course lots of meat (the others took most of it) that i sometimes could redistribute or use for feeding the feral cat groups around the area. Good idea if the bread is not packaged or the bin liner is broken...make salmorejo at someone's place. All you need more than bread is spices, oil, onions and tomatoes (the latter I'd often collect at the same time👍). Then you can also make a really nice meal for a friend for free😊
All I could find in my food waste bin are just egg shells, fruit peels, and some non-edible parts. Just can't imagine how western people let a complete tomato rotten in the family waste bin.
After having lived in East Asia for a few years now, I think you may have an overly rosy view of the situation here. Sure, the older generations don't waste but the younger generations seem hell bent on over buying and then throwing out huge amounts of perfectly good food...
@@transcrobesproject3625 Thanks for the sharing of your experiences. I live in Taiwan and I'm also the younger generation you've mentioned. The situation i described above isn't rosy at all here even among my peers according to my experiences. Yes, younger generation do throw out good food more frequently than the older generation because the economy is way better than before. But throwing out good food is still deemed as a bad behavior and we always feel guilty throwing out food that we couldn't finish. I've also studied in Shanghai for a year and the situation is quite similar.
@@199786415 yeah, I'm not sure I buy the "seen as bad" argument. If it really was seen as bad then people wouldn't do it. The younger generation seems to feel that showing you have far too much is a sign of success. Your comment about the economy is telling - we have money so we can waste lots and not care. US portions are far too big for normal people to eat so some parts of the west definitely share this. I'm just not sure that developing East Asia is heading in the right direction...
@@transcrobesproject3625 yeah maybe but for me the "showcasing success" opinion is a bit dramatic. I've never seen or heard of people throwing or buying excessive food to exhibit their wealth. Food is just not the proper object for this job. My comment about the economy isn't to justify wasting food, but to elaborate the reason why younger generation have a lower standard when it comes to throwing out food comparing to the older generation. The developing East Asia is heading the direction that every developed countries has already been through and that's just a transition period. The extreme cases of people wasting food you may have experienced isn't a norm imo. It's just a bit ironic to see the host demonstrating how we can cut down our food waste but letting a good tomato and a uneaten boiled egg rotten in the bin.
@@199786415 We agree on everything (even maybe me exaggerating a little), I'm just a little sensitive about comments about how Europeans do things. It's been a very long time since I through a tomato out, in any state, much to the annoyance of my mainland GF, who wants to throw anything out if it was cooked more than a couple of hours ago...
Love the journalist! Wanna share stories from Indonesia, still developing country. Here, people don't really mind about food waste issues. Ironically, we threw away lot of food that actually can be consumed by hunger people in this country. We have tradition to serve big feast in the ceremony, event, big day, etc and wasting food is not inevitable! Kind of food rescue app is not really welcome because the term "waste" they thought it's disgusting and non-edible. Hope that people all over the world can grow mindset about "food waste" cause food won't be waste if we put concern in this issue!
Thank you very much for your insights! It's always very exciting to hear from other countries how the same problem is approached. Do you think the perception of leftover food as inedible garbage is the biggest problem? Or could it be that the overall appreciation of food is too low?
Old chocolate tastes awful. Sometimes even before it expired, even if stored properly.
Selling chocolate in springtime that expired in January, not a good sign.
Still like the idea though, but they really have to ensure the stuff is still good.
"Just because it's not perfect, doesn't mean it's worthless"
That perfectly describes me
9:43 it's interesting that you are showing how to "save" planet but order online and throw away bunch of cardboard .
"Hunger comes in waves that pass." -Michael Mosley
I know that in Los Angeles huge amount of restaurants throw away food but they never give it to homeless Or sell it. Just because it’s not so safe and hygiene. Might be someone else ate it before 😬 it’s hard to check it out. I don’t know any food waste company which can solve that problem. Maybe the only solution is to to buy ready food 🍲 when we hangry instead of buy all grocery store for a month and then throw away third of food?!?! . It’s just waste of money and time.
WOOW good that ur country has such places..
We need the highlighted app in the US!!!
Guess what
Its in the US now
Guys can you please provide the website from you ordered the bad looking vegetables? i would like to use that ... Thanks !
Hi it's this bio box: etepetete-bio.de/
11.31 agree ...it should be illegal to waste our precious resources not salvage them from landfill🤨
that's an interesting experiment
Great 💡 idea
name of track?
11:35
I feed our leftover meat to stray cats and dogs. It maybe harmful to them but I'm sure they'll survive longer from starvation. As for few vegetable scraps, I use it as compost.
eating leftover always ends well according to RUclips video XD
cook your own food and don't waste it
We shouldn’t eat food that’s about to go bad (bad=rotting). We should grow our own food and eat it fresh, when it has the most nutrients....and cook our own food, because you know how much food you need, the fastfood place or restaurant or other place don’t know, so they make too much.
We need to change the whole way we think about food, food waste became a problem, when food became a product.
Thank you for your comment, Emma.
We've touched on the topic of producing food without destroying the planet. The process is called Permaculture. Have you seen the video yet? ruclips.net/video/I0rQNYMwzfY/видео.html
we compost our food waste
or at least as much as we can
How Homeless people must feel
Wow DW Planet A videos usually have a lot of views and comments. This one doesn't fit the algorithm cuz it's not a subject that interests people much. Clearly everyone here watching and commenting are thinking this should get more attention.
Maximum food wastages are because of over converson of food products to business of food products. Parties, ceramonies, hotel , cookries class are amongest top wastages of food. We need to limites. Its foolishness to suffer or prosperities.
Wow this is some high quality stuff
I like following the zero waste chef on instagram. She has great tips for zero waste shopping and cooking.
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Yikes, Freeganisme. Lol
Hope you are healthy and well..
Loved the channel! I would love to try but i am already vegan, i feel like it woulf be even harder...
she doesnt eat waste meat
What a trash society we are…
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pls wear a mask!!!!
capitalism in its current state is the problem
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I hate this
What's the deal with your haircut?