Tossed Out: Food Waste in America
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- Опубликовано: 31 май 2024
- Food waste is the single-largest source of waste in municipal landfills. According to the EPA, 35 billion pounds of food were thrown away in 2011. As it decomposes in landfills, the waste releases methane and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Meanwhile, 1 in 7 Americans struggles with hunger and the world wonders how to address the challenge of feeding 9 billion people by 2050. For more, visit the Harvest Public Media website at harvestpublicmedia.org/content....
Really disgusting and ungrateful. My grandma was born in 1920. First 10 years of life was the great depression from start to end. She wasted nothing. For Christmas she got an orange, one orange. She ate all of it the skin and everything. It rubbed off on me to the fullest.
So glad they covered the legal aspect of this. I worked for a grocery store in the 1990s and expired food HAD to go in the trash. No, employees can't take it home: if one person gets sick, blammo, million-dollar lawsuit against the company. - Kids throw away half their school lunches because it's all processed junk from the USDA. The cafeteria ladies aren't allowed to *cook* anything, or even touch the food; they only re-heat it according to the directions on the boxes. The possibility of a lawsuit is just too high a risk.
Damn lawyers.
Growing up I always ate the left overs...mom hated to waste anything..now at my old age I still eat leftovers...
We should eat as much as we need
Not put on the table more then need. No need to throw away food when it is made to be eaten, not thrown away.
Mikes Grillin same here.
Mikes Grillin Love my left over's..Going to have some now .
......and me.
Mikes Grillin u a good man brother
This confirms what I have been telling my friends for years about those food dates. My family teases me all the time because I have food that the dates have expired. Being a baby boomer and growing up deciding by smell if something is good to eat. It makes me cringe when my family wants me to throw away a perfectly good food product. Now I can feel good about not throwing away food prematurely. I am sending all my family and friends this video.
The date on food isnt an expiry date it is a best before date , it is at its best quality before the date , at its freshest , crispest etc but it is still perfectly safe and edible after the date . Just because lettuce isnt at the peak crispness doesnt mean it is bad . The noodles in a can of chicken noodle soup may be a bit softer or mushier but it is still perfectly safe and edible . The food isnt spoiled but many people are .
There’s so many people who are hungry. 😢 But we are wasting tons of food..
Jac Vanity, and it's all by design.
And animals hungry
Extra food tossed out st stores should go to homeless shelters
Sad
We R wasting 40 percent of what we produce. That's so darn much it is a sin
A law was past in France in 2016, it is now illegal for supermarkets to throw away eatable foods. They must donate it to charities and they get a tax cut for that. This throwing food away has to stop !
A law never enforced, since "eatable" is subject to interpretation.
That law was never enforced. Paper laws can't cure waste.
I loved this doc! There are ideas on how to help solve the problem rather than simply complaining about it.
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I get mad at my self if something gets bad in my fridge.I try to consume everything we have. Too kany folks go hungry
Me too.🙂
@Billy Jackson AMERICA ITS NOT A COUNTRY AMERICA ITS A CONTINENT
Billy Jackson my store where I work at I work in produce department and we give all the food we can’t sell to customers due to looks or if it’s starting to go because we prioritize our looks and quality but anyways we give that to food shelters and the moldy produce we give to farmers to feed to pigs because apparently pigs are able to digest it lol
Problem with community composting is that in areas like my island we pay by the lbs to dump any garbage, so when the poor can't afford to dump their cooked veggies, uncooked eggs, meat, hell, I have even found a dead cat! ( it was inside a knotted bag, so it was thrown out) they throw it out in the compost.
Properly composting you can put any plant, any seeds, any weeds in your compost without fear of those seeds coming up in your garden, here's how it works!
The compost should be layered.
1) dry leaves, dry grass, dry small twiggs
2) wet leaves, wet grass, other greens
3) coffee grounds and kitchen scraps
( coffee grounds, egg shells that have been rinsed and banana peels can go straight into the garden soil, but must be hurried, roses love banana peels)
Keep your compost wet, like a damp sponge. I use a hole in my backyard that I layer my compost in multiple layers, water it down and cover it with a tarp or 10 mm black poly ( black to increase the heat) add a compost thermometer. It takes about three days but the compost will hit about 120-180c, then cool down, this is when you turn the compost, add water and cover again, the temp will continue to go up above 100 degrees Celsius, until it is completely broken down. ( 21 days if you turn it every three days)
The first time it hits peak temp the seeds will be opened, the second time it kills them, the third time they begin to breakdown....you can add some liquid nitrogen plant food to help speed along the process.
The ubc botanical gardens web sight has multiple videos on 'how to',
all the food waste in my house feeds the local birds
mike watters my food waste goes to feed birds & feral animals. I have VERY LITTLE trash... We have curbside trash + recycling containers that the city provides. I have decided to let them bill me for the containers each month but I have found a waste company that has a great recycling program which is where I take mine once every week or two... That waste Mgmt company also works with our local Trash to Energy Plant. That plant also works with the city to purchase waste from the local landfill & they capture CO2 in the process of burning to generate energy... They then sell the CO2 as well as another gas captured in the Energy production of the Waste to Energy Plant...
My left over is seasoning for my pigs (I have over 105 pigs & 65 piglets) and they eat it up. I bought my neighbors small buckets with lids And every week i or my family members pick up their bucket's of left overs. My pigs love it and this saves me money on buying feed for them. I share some bacon etc...to my neighbors.
And squirrels
mike watters ,Great it ends up killing them!
Our food is mostly bad for animals and especially for birds!
You may mean good but are not on the right path.
that's exactly what I do. I put the food in pans make sure its mushed and then put it outside for the animals, which includes many cats, dogs, birds, raccoons. I feel its a waste to throw it away when animals can feed on it.
The company I work for throws away tons of food every week. It's gluttony. Clients order too much, the company makes too much and there is no accountability from management on down. I finally have had enough. These actions are unethical.
Walmart?
There will probably be a ‘solution’ once the nutcases in charge figure out how to make a corrupt buck from it.
Yes if we speak out one person at a time it will work , I did it with my friends that used to order so much at the buffet restaurant, and then throw a it away, I explained about why we shall not served so much at one time but repited as many times necessary. It worked
"unethical " what isn't unethical? Is it ethical for the weather and climate to be engineered as the Pope, the UN all government and owned science calls it's climate change is also unethical, what if anything is anyone doing about it? They parrot the lies that's what they do, they beg to be carbon taxed.
marina hernandez what you and your friends do is small fries compared to grocery chains
One crucial thing that could help is people cooking more, and giving people more time with family so they can cook and eat meals together.
If you do decide to throw out fruits or vegetables, please consider composting. You might not think you’re doing much for the environment but every bit helps.
Just throw in the flowerbed
I grew up on leftovers
We grew up eating what we put on our plates, nothing went in the trash. Leftovers were served the next night.
Yes leftovers and hand me down clothes.
We never let any food go to waste. We never knew if we would have any thing to eat the next day. We were told waste not want.
If you grow up poor you learn to save
Thanks for the documentary.
All my vegetable scraps are weekly cooked up into broth before being composted
I will defintely try this.
That is very resourceful and wise.
My dog does a great job eating any dinner leftovers. And I'm starting a compost bin to take care of the rest. Trying to do better.
One of the many advantages of having a dog is if they will eat it you can too
Same here. What my dog doesn't eat the birds and other little critters do.
feeding a dog, table scraps regularly is not good for them, their digestion is different, so they might get sick...
I have a worm farm for all veggie scraps, egg shells, coffee and tea grounds. It makes the most awesome fertile soil.
You're Killin you're beloved pet
Human food isn't good for their digestive system
Here in Austria food waste has been collected separately since 1985. The disposal company composts it together with garden waste to produce methan gas and soil. Since 1992 the other household has been saperated to 5 seperate waste streams (paper, metal, plastic, withe glass, coloured glass). Toxic waste must be disposed saperatly at the recycling centers. And since 2009 the rest has not been dumped on a landfil. Is is transferred to a state of the art waste to energy power plant. Yes there is a landfil side of ash, construction and demolition waste. There are no birds, bad smells, methan emissions or fire.
@Al Fabeech, AOC is an absolute idiot. I agree with the buying of water, it's nuts. I have friends of mine give me their bottles and I use them with my own water until the bottle doesn't look so good, then recycle it.
You can throw your iwnscrsps in your flowerbed..n bury it
Yes, same in Switzerland and in the Dolomites in Italy (very German). I was extremely impressed with both cases.
Al, I like your weirdness. Lol!!!😁😁😁
That is done some here, but there are people who overstate the waste to advance their sense of activism and self-importance. They could do more, doing activities that are far more productive.
We won't appreciate food until a famine happens.
Famine is happening to the 3rd world.
You mean whites.
A famine is happening now! Famine in Venezuela! Famine in the Sudan!
Not Today ; and the food prices are going up in the fall of 2019 because of the Midwest floods the fake new did not report on . Too busy reporting on Washington D.C. BS
That's the Truth!! Theres alot of people out there that's never been Hungry.
The women says, "We've thrown away 4 pounds of food in two days." I think this is misleading, I don't think she is actually separating peels, grounds and seeds (non edible) from plate leftovers. I waste ZERO % of my food, nothing, and I still put about 10 pounds of food scraps into my worm bins every two weeks because of the non edible items (peels, coffee grounds, juicing pulp, tissue paper, etc.) This study would be good to know for how much compost waste a home generates but not "food" waste in the literal sense.
I was thinking the same thing.
Best By dates are being removed by many UK supermarkets, thank goodness. They weren't around when I was growing up, we could tell when a carrot was going a bit floppy or an apple going brown. Why do people think that at midnight on any given day half the contents of the fridge suddenly become inedible?!
New Law: Every household must have at least 5 chickens to eat dumped food and have best eggs for a reward!
Sounds good on paper, but actually feeding animals is quite an inefficient way of converting food energy from one from to another. Better to minimise waste as far as possible first, very little edible food need ever be thrown away if you plan, shop and cool properly.
Excellent 👍
Currently I have 14. 6 more due to come soon.
In addition to household food scraps, I collect restaurant food scraps.
Have more people that want my backyard eggs than I have eggs.
Karl Hammer and Edible Acres are my heros!
dzezvick26, that's what we need more LAWS and mandates... we can't see this is an agenda to make the american public feel guilty for eating for causing climate change and all whilst the weather is engineered.
@@Amelia-uf9ig your neighbor who has the stinky chickens isn't caring for them properly otherwise you wouldn't smell them.
ALMIGHTY GOD, PLEASE BLESS AND PROSPER THOSE WHO DO THEIR BEST TO MAKE THIS WORLD A BETTER PLACE. WASTING IS A GRAVE SIN.
And stop making people that want to become politicians so god damn dumb.
Ummm okay
You won't go to hell for it
Here here!!
I wished ppl had common sense,which they are gravely lacking 😔
I lived and worked in Mexico for 2 yrs. I worked in a Music night club...we would send out appies for a table ordering drinks...deep fried stuff, bowl of nuts etc. When things came back into the kitchen un eaten....the staff would eat it. I was a little shocked at first, but then realized these people make 5 bucks a day and that food was more than they made in a day....I have never forgotten this!
What needs to happen is lower prices. I can't afford to shop at my local farmers market b/c the prices are absurd!
Lower prices are the problem. Fifty years ago the average household spent a third of their income on food. Now it's less than ten percent. Food has never been cheaper. We buy, and waste more than ever. People need to eat seasonally if they want to save money. The problem in America is that they are so addicted to convenience, the market has been skewed to make these products even cheaper.
Don't worry too much about it. Most farmers markets are a scam. The produce isn't locally grown, rather it's purchased from the same place Walmart gets it'd produce from.
Spencer Wilton unless you go to California. The cost of living is so expensive there that food makes up 40% of the average household budget.
Randolph I live in London, I am well aware how the cost of living is skewed by location! However it is still possible to eat healthily and cheaply by avoiding prepacked supermarket produce that is often shipped or flown from abroad, and instead buy seasonal UK produce.
Ironic that most think food is too expensive and especially good organically grown food, but much do you pay a month for a cell phone for the honour of being radiated and tracked Jae Lynn?
I enjoyed the educational aspect of this video. I would recommend showing this video to all families mainly children. Children learn only what we teach them. All of us should be less wasteful and more grateful.
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My husband needs to be in a food waste program! I very seldom shop anymore, because he won’t stop going to grocery stores after work. He buys anything on sale, even if it’s something we won’t eat and buys way too much food, just cause it’s on sale! I grew up on a farm and we didn’t have a lot of money. We learned not to waste food, whether we grew it ourselves or it was bought. It drives me nuts, seeing the food he buys and that ends up tossed cause we can’t eat it all before it goes bad. I try to get him to give to others, so it’s not wasted and he refuses, cuz he bought it. I’ve given him the extra vegetables from our own garden, to give to coworkers or drop off at the church for their meals, and he leaves it in his car trunk, cuz he thinks we will still need it. I am at my wits end with the food waste here! It’s just so against what I was taught and taught my kids as they grew up. 😡
Can't you freeze the food he brings home
Based on what you said he is a food hoarder. I.m so sorry for you, he always been like that??
When you waste food you waste money.
When you have too much money, why bother.
Wisely stated,so true 😞
Why don't they give that food to the homeless??? Make them sign wavers...
The cost factor comes in; throwing away is cheaper than feeding the poor, as befits the capitalist rule, profit first.
Revision TV82 Salvation Army, St. Vincent de Paul, and others give free food to people who are low income, which they get from grocery stores, who won't sell it. Anyone can call their number, or checkout their website, for times and days of distribution.
That's what I was thinking
why don't you eat it
read my reply above ....... it cant be helped .
The Homeless in general are very picky and reject alot of the food distributed .
Grocery stores here throw good quality food away here but will not share it. They fear giving it away will affect their sales.
this was enlightening. I compost most everything we don't use. Feed the neighborhood cats when my critters don't finish their plates. Smaller plates and gleaning are amazing. I just used to look to glean here in FL particularly fruit, but the area i live in does not facilitate the gleaning. I have tried to pick up prepared food from restaurants for food banks, now i will try again. Thanks very much for this!
As we have aged and family grown we are cooking less. For a while we were eating a lot of fresh food and smaller meals. But with some health issues, smaller apatite, and picky stomachs we a wasting more. This has inspired us to do better.
90% of my organic waste gets tilled into the garden via the backyard compost pile. Egg shells, coffee grounds, veg cuttings, grass clippings, etc.
I wish my county / parish would recycle glass but they don't sadly.
What about the 50% of food that gets thrown out before it even reaches the shops?
The cost of transportation of perishables is a big factor in the waste. A reefer is a expensive thing to maintain and operate.
People get a worm bin and stop.throwing food in the land!
This is a brilliant idea, the government should do more to make this nationwide effort.
I don't understand why the US is so behind on recycling and composting. Perhaps they should take a lesson from Germany. Each village has dozens of containers for composting they use to fertilize their crops. Cardboard and paper is collected each week. Yellow bags are used to hold all plastics, styrofoam, and tin which will be later used to create bags etc. that can be sold. Glass is recycled and used glass bottles have deposits you can receive back. Over here in the US you are only allowed to recycle hard plastics, no plastic films or bags. Recycle is thrown into one big container which puts more work on separating it all once it's collected. Glass isn't recycled anymore. If the US adopts German ways of recycling each family will only have 1 gallon of residual waste a month. The size of the residual waste container was only 2 ft deep. Not hard, just have some common sense and stop being so lazy.
poot and beans yea will take advice from nazis
In the US capitalism/greed dictates everything...so there is probably not a big motivation by industry if there is not a big profit to be made...but you are correct. The US and the rest of the world need to step up. Especially India. India needs to really get it together from what I have seen. They are still dumping large amounts of plastics and trash into their rivers. The rest of the nations are having to clean up the Indian's garbage from the beaches of the world.
Stun well take advice from the nation that defeated them then. Here in the UK we have separate collection for paper, glass and plastic, garden waste, food waste etc. Where I live they also take batteries, tinfoil, tetrapacks, textiles and shoes right from your property.
@@stun3282, better than cowboys.
@@stun3282 why not, we elected a Nazi for president.
Here in my province, in Canada, we recycle all plastics, tin cans, glass, cardboard (unsoiled), magazines, newsprint, paper bags, and compost food waste. I am probably forgetting a few things. Electronics are also recycled here. There is also a rule in most places in my province that you must use clear garbage bags for the majority of your actual garbage (you get 1 lg black garbage bag for discretely disposing of certain items). If you put the wrong things in your clear bags, they won't take them until you sort it properly.
Where in canada do you live? I would look harder into how effective your recycling and disposal systems truly are. I live in Edmonton and where were once at the top after looking into it we are failing and way behind.
Look again! Canada is one of the largest problems for 3rd world countries. Look it up. There is a verbal blow up in progress because of sending a ALL OF THE TRASH to other countries. LOOK IT UP IT'S GPING ON RIGHT NOW
nope
Higher prices means food waste, lower prices means food flies off the shelves! Basic mathematics
But that's not what's going to happen
EXACTLY!
That methane gas can be recycle and turn into gas for cooking.
How MUCH !!? For your GAS !!?
We could probably feed the world with our leftovers. :'(
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Should ground it up and make biscuits and send it overseas so it wont spoil
We're talking about 40-50% of all food produced: it would feed 2 B people (1/3) EVERY YEAR.
That's a good point, "Why throw away food just because someone says, 'It's not good enough!' ".
Give it too the homeless!
Some local grocery stores do this near me. They send it to Philadelphia to feed the homeless.
Here in Canada we have a dog food company which uses the Soldier Fly Larva...companies pay them to take their veg waste away and this company uses it to feed the flies!! So awesome!!
IF there is so much waste, then why do they charge so much for food>?! It's insane how much fruit costs. $5 for a tiny container of blackberries, the cheapest they ever get is $3 for a very tiny container, holding about 25 berries! It's insane to not have grocery stores that actually sell food at a lower cost or just give it away. Grocery stores wouldn't be tossing food if they priced food right! I walk past so many fruits and veggies b/c I can't afford them. Pineapples are super expensive too!
Jae Lynn The cost of produce includes not only the costs to grow, harvest, package and ship the produce, but also the costs to operate grocery stores which customers expect to be fully stocked all year round. If a store can't recoup the cost of providing the produce for sale, then you won't see that product for sale. Blackberries grow native in much of the US. If you aren't happy with their cost, then try growing or foraging for them. Regarding pineapples, considering they're grown in Hawaii where land is expensive and shipping to the mainland is pricey, they are amazingly cheap. There are THOUSANDS of fruits and veggies easily found around the country that you'll never see in stores because the demand is not sufficient to cover the costs of providing them for sale.
It is all in where you live and time of year, etc as to how much it costs. Right now I can get a small container of raspberries for about $1.48 (Driscolls) on sale or moon drop grapes for about 88 cents a pound. Also, grocery stores have to set the price above what they have to pay for it. They can not price it at cost or they would not be able to survive.
My friend these stores charge high due to rent and other costs, some of these places charge about $50,000 monthly for rent alone. Some of these buildings are over a hundred years old yet they charge these exorbitant rent.
Jae Lynn you're eating completely the wrong things. Blackberries are highly seasonal and usually hand picked, plus have a very short shelf life. Of course they are going to be expensive. Pineapples are relatively slow growing and often transported huge distances. Buy what grows locally, when it's in season. Go to markets (actual markets, not stores - I know the term market means different things to some Americans!) if you have them. Especially if you can go close to the end of the day when produce is vastly reduced. Here in the U.K. we have excellent root veg because of the climate, and you can often buy a carrier bag full of different vegetables for a couple of pounds. Fruit falls to a fraction of usual prices when in season, even normally expensive things like strawberries, asparagus etc cost very little. The only expensive thing is home grown beef and lamb- unfortunately because it's known for its quality it's snapped up by the French, Spanish and Italians for shipment to them, driving up the prices.
Good information that needs to be more wide spread
in Australia we have had 3 different bins for out wast for decades, red,yellow, green. the red one is for our none recyclables the yellow is for anything recyclable and the green for anything that can be compostable, either from food to garden trimmings.
Amazing documentary , please keep up the great work and make more. Especially now. 2020 pandemic and beyond. Thank you.
We have a great food ministry in Nevada County, CA. We get our food from food banks, farms, gleaners and grocers. We sort through the produce. The rejects go to livestock, and the good stuff goes to clients.
For a while now, I've been taking my neighbors kitchen scraps to feed my chickens. Anything they don't eat is placed in the compost bins then used on my small veg gardens. My neighbors have said that they are now throwing out less than half the waste that they used to do.
well - Mr "Professor" i am going to burst your bubble - my family has always been sustainable and i am over 60 years of age - i had a forward thinking mother who cared for the planet way before it became the latest buzz word
100% correct! Look after what we get from Mother Earth. We may not have an option in the very near future, sad as it is I think we are too late.
Prepping is good thing
Today, April 20, 2019...after watching this very important report, I could not help but notice one thing. All prices of canned goods have doubled since then. Number 2# People need to start growing their own produce. Now!
I do this and have for years growing up on a farm in Iowa I think its our GOD giving right to not waste food or face something else . And letting other nations starve to death for the like of food plus animals give up their lives and why let their death go in vain .
Seth B: EDIT/Correction/ Amendment: "...it is our god-given OBLIGATION..." [and for non-believers: "it is our human obligation to ourselves, to future generations, to Nature herself and to/for all of Life..."
Very thoughtful comment
They don't give up their lives..the animals lives are taken from them!!
Go visit a slaughter house
Why don't they use those vegetables to feed the cows?!.
It's too toxic for the cows to eat!
Cow can't eat vegetables. Nature designed them to eat grass. They can get sick if they eat to much corn. Pigs can and in the old days the pig farmers had Dumpsters full of Food scraps from military bases and Food co. to feed their pigs.
It would be unwell and unethical to feed contaminated or otherwise unsafe food to any animal.
NO . Pigs and chickens especially pigs can shift anything .
Cows don't eat vegetables why don't they give the food to soup kitchens and or offer them to the poor.
"people are being forced to confront a growing crisis.
There we go please as plum to repeat the FAO's COdex excuses and lies under the guise of food safety"
it's the start on how to save the world, it's so simple that most people miss it, just be nice to people and share, and stop seeing everyone as an enemy or competition for what is available
the world is not in danger....there are cycles...you are on one..a beginning a middle and an end...pay attention..like the tomatoe...you go around once and you are not recycled..!!! you decompose..!
Can't change or stop PROPHECY..we are living in the last earth age for flesh .next age we will all be changed into our spiritual bodies..
Eating all the food you have before going to the grocery store makes a difference. You end up eating stuff you don’t really want at the end but it’s better than adding it to trash. Buying less at a time helps because it’s less likely to get old and go bad
This is how I zeroed my food waste.
Our grandparents grew everything, canned it, and lived on them during the fall/winter season. They passed that onto our parents, but unless you live where you have a plot of land to grow fruit and vegetables on, then most people have to go to the supermarket. In VA, we used to rent a small plot of land to grow our own. Many people did the same and I believe the parks rented several acres to sublet for growing food. We were responsible for planting, watering, harvesting it to eat. If you didn’t then you didn’t have it to eat.
a friend of mine told me how to keep carrots in the frig from spoiling - put them in zip lock bags wrapped in paper towels and when they get wet then change the paper towels and I have had my carrots last for months by doing this!! It works and have done it with peppers also and they lasted for weeks!
Here in Finland food waste is used to produce gas. After that rest goes for compost to produce good quality soil. Gas is used for local buses etc.
21:45 this cought my attention fast, i don't think most people realise this
Feed a ton of Hogs!
Great wakeup call for wasters I hope! My folks raised us not to waste...anything! 35 million tons of food waste? That's ridiculous. Sinful even, when people go hungry on our planet! Damn shame. Wow. No wonder I pray a lot. My grandparents raised a passel of kids through rough times on a 160 acre farm in Tecumseh and grandma raised her kids right; everybody worked or they starved. I remember the stories of those times. We all need to pitch in and make this right! God bless all. Old lady in WA state👵🌲🐕💖
I found that in Cheadle Hulme south Manchester UK...people were composting food....it is collected as is the recyclables and trash each week....They have a wonderful system ...also in France it is illegal to throw out perfectly edible food.....North America needs to do more than ...also serves is done in Canada ...just charge deposit and recycle fees on as many containers as they can get away with and pretending they are conserving for the environment...
in most major cities in Canada - food waste goes in green recycling collected once a week
It makes no sense,we throw away 35 million tons of food but there's 40 million hungry souls in America, capitalism at it's best.
Madness with a method.
Right, but it is only what law allows.
Some states have laws, that won't let you feed people or animals with the left over food. Someone might sue if they get sick.
In my town garbage, recycling, garden/grass clippings and food waste all go into separate bins that are collected on different days. The garbage and food waste bins have bear-proof locks on them, because we live in bear country. It didn't take long after the locks were installed for the bears to realize that bins were no longer going to be a source of food, so we see far fewer bears in residential areas than we used to and because food waste is going to a composing facility and not the landfill, there are far fewer bears there too.
All that organic stuff could be tuned into compost and fertiliser for farmers.
My fruit and veggie scraps goes in my compost bucket that gets reused to fertilize my other plants. I rarely use the garbage can. I tend to recycle more . Only bones really and coffee filters go in the trash
If the schools didn't force us to get a fruit or veg that we dont want and will just throw away, then that would reduce waste.
I loved this doc! There are ideas on how to help solve the problem rather than simply complaining about it.
Why can't it be donated in store, slap a for donation sticker on it, and give it to the public, one per customer, and the store also gets a instant reduction in their taxes, or a refund from the government!
Growing up poor, we ate potato’s and also the skins! I love potato skins! Fried in olive oil until a lite brown crisp is so so yummy! Also, potato pan cakes, bean salad sandwiches, shepherds pie, rice with chili. Anything to fill the belly of the young children. We never asked for a dessert because our dessert consisted of grabbing a apple off the tree! We had pear , apple and cherry trees. Peaches and plums along with a black berry tree! Waste not want not! We ate well although we were poor! Everyone should have a garden!
My food that is leftover I mixed it in my dogs 🐕 food 🥘 they love 💕 it
get a pig for a pet...recycle the pig..!
Here in Switzerland, recyling bins are split in two kinds; regular household waste incl. food, and gardening leftovers. The 'normal' green waste becomes methan gas for heating and public transportation, grass, chopped leaves and twigs are turned into compost and mixed fertilizer. There is also a mini-chain that buys pastry and breads from small bakeries and sell them at a lower place. Sadly, big companies have yet to share this philosophy.
Also, many people toss out half-eaten food in the trash or even on the street. Not to mention people who change their order several times or return their meal for no good reason, when in a restaurant, forcing the gastronomy to toss out thousands of tons of good, valuable food.
Wonderful.. This is a good program.
at our own home we never throw food away...we buy enough and still consume food near to their expiry date or still edible...we are consious of the budget we spend on food and turn non edible food waste into compost
When it comes to food eat all you need but eat all you take. Leftovers should be transferred into container, promptly refrigerated or frozen, an used as promptly as possible, or start making smaller portions. And people have gotten used to the use it once throw it away products, that's why the garbage level is at an ecological disaster.
Blemished and irregular fruit and vegetables are still good: the stigmatism is created by its not perfect it's not good, when in actuality it's fine just not, photographic friendly. They could be made into healthy good food.
I don't waste food, everything cooked and prepared is eaten. And be thankful for your bountifuls , God bless amen
Como e bom ver todos se focalizando com a reciclagem
My grandparents lived through the Great Depression and always had a stash. In his later life, my grandpa kept cases of canned goods under his bed. Growing up never quite having enough myself, I get mad when I see people waste food. There were no food stamps back then. I say take what you want, but eat what you take. I also try to keep enough stocked to feed kids and grandkids if necessary. Living in Florida, I don't wait until a hurricane is baring down to stock up.
Well you will only see the importance of things when you dont have it anymore
I do believe the stores throw away a lot more food than the consumers
I eat past due dates. And left overs. I hardly have to waste anything. The only person in my household is me and my dog
I never waste food due to am to cheap to waste it.
Excellent documentary. Cheers from Canada.
The key to all of this is education. Strict laws that make companies recycle their products they sell.
Here’s a thought. Every food source should be required to have a refrigerator/freezer to house “Throw away good food” for the needy/homeless for organizations to disperse accordingly. We’ve heard of “meals on wheels”, why not start “good extra food, let’s eat (GEFLE”). I’m sure that volunteers would lend a helping hand for this effort.
What we need now are high profile citizens to push this agenda. Every bit of good food counts.
A friend of mine used to work as a server at a well known university. The quality of the food is top drawer.
Sometimes the students would get a tray full of food during a meal. The terrible part:
Sometimes many of the students would take one bite of a sandwich, one bite out of an apple, leave more than 1/2 of a salad in the bowl and then take a couple of bites out of the entrie then just leave the tray of unfinished food to be tossed.
She biked from campus at the end of her shift. In the back of the halls there would be 3 to 4 dumpsters full of food.
Most of the students attending universities are upper middle class homes and have no experience with hunger or borderline lack of nutritious food.
There's a real problem in this country with those who disrespect food.
Give to the homeless and poor people
alot of the food from homes has probably spoiled if it's thrown out.
When I lived in Manila a neighbor raising pigs brought a gallon tin can with a wire hanger with him and asked if we would save our daily food garbage and hang it on the place we agreed on about dusk. Then they would collect from the neighbors and boil in a large cauldron and let cool and feed to the pigs including banana peels, watermelon rind and citrus peels. Then every so often Tommy Chua would throw a big party.
Excellent documentary
Single meal containers I now buy single meal cans of vegetables at 40. Cents each instead of. 16 oz cans at the dollar store or $1.60 at grocery store.
You need a fridge or larder for the house.
This practice uses a lot of metal because you are buying more cans and canning metal -- even if the $0.40 cans are smaller.
Wasting metal is probably more harmful than wasting food.
There is major factor in all of this i find which have never been addressed and that is how to use fridge freezer properly.
Corporate restaurants love to pile the food up on our plates just so they can charge three times the amount we might pay for reasonable servings. Another corporate trick is to sell a packet of batteries with always one or two left over so by the time you purchase another packet of them, the mismatched ones have gone weak...
In Germany there is a Fine of 50 Euros for throwing away food .
Fine, but who enforces the law? There is no policeman at every corner.
So what do you do with food then? Store it until its rotten? Make maggots out of it?
Raj s that is not true. There is no such fine. You can get a fine if you throw food or cigarettes in the streets not using a bin. Like everywhere else on this planet. Recommendation - Never throw away you garbage if you visit Singapore! Bad Idea.
I compost my waste and my garden loves it!
I am Montagnard indigenous I was grown up poor and we always hungry now I live in USA never throw food away.
Many more products that cannot be sold can be preserved so that they would be stored longer and then distributed to the poor.And you can also put products in vacuum packaging so that they do not spoil for a long time.
I'm English. My parents went through World War 2 and even into the 1950's there was food rationing. My brother was born in 1935 and never saw an orange until he was 11 years old. I can remember though that if I didn't eat my meal it was warmed up the next day. I think the legacy of WW2 rationing is still affecting us, my wife and I throw very little food away and our grown up children are the same. Perhaps it's the fact that most Americans have never been hungry wasting food means very little to them. Incedentaly it seems we were much fitter during food rationing than we are now.