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.

There’s so many people who are hungry. 😢 But we are wasting tons of food..

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...

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.

all the food waste in my house feeds the local birds

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 !

I loved this doc! There are ideas on how to help solve the problem rather than simply complaining about 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.

Thanks for the documentary.

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.

All my vegetable scraps are weekly cooked up into broth before being composted

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.

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

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!

We won't appreciate food until a famine happens.

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.

ALMIGHTY GOD, PLEASE BLESS AND PROSPER THOSE WHO DO THEIR BEST TO MAKE THIS WORLD A BETTER PLACE. WASTING IS A GRAVE SIN.

I grew up on leftovers

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.

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?!

What about the 50% of food that gets thrown out before it even reaches the shops?

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',

New Law: Every household must have at least 5 chickens to eat dumped food and have best eggs for a reward!

Amazing documentary , please keep up the great work and make more. Especially now. 2020 pandemic and beyond. Thank you.

Why don't they give that food to the homeless??? Make them sign wavers...

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.

People get a worm bin and stop.throwing food in the land!

When you waste food you waste money.

Good information that needs to be more wide spread

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.

Excellent documentary

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.

What needs to happen is lower prices. I can't afford to shop at my local farmers market b/c the prices are absurd!

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!

That methane gas can be recycle and turn into gas for cooking.

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. 😡

Higher prices means food waste, lower prices means food flies off the shelves! Basic mathematics

Nice documentary

Wonderful.. This is a good program.

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.

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.

Excellent documentary. Cheers from Canada.

We could probably feed the world with our leftovers. :'(

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.

Como e bom ver todos se focalizando com a reciclagem

Nice documentary, very educational and inspiring.

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.

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!

I loved this doc! There are ideas on how to help solve the problem rather than simply complaining about it.

Thanks for sharing, good knowledge

That's a good point, "Why throw away food just because someone says, 'It's not good enough!' ".

Give it too the homeless!

What a lovely video!

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!

this was a very good informational video!

This is a brilliant idea, the government should do more to make this nationwide effort.

An insightful documentary 👍

Grocery stores here throw good quality food away here but will not share it. They fear giving it away will affect their sales.

Excellent Doc.

Excellent article

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.

My food that is leftover I mixed it in my dogs 🐕 food 🥘 they love 💕 it

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

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

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!!

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

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.

21:45 this cought my attention fast, i don't think most people realise this

Why don't they use those vegetables to feed the cows?!.

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.

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.

Loved it great points

Thank you I will be using this info as a help in my book I am writing called Waste Not Want Not. it is this and more. Loved the older people near the end they grew up like I did with parents from the depression and on the farm. I hope people get this!

Very commendable initiative

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!

That is so awesome. How do I get one of those little buckets. I would like to help!!! Thanks to everyone that is coming up with new ideas to help our planet!!

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...

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.

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.

Feed a ton of Hogs!

great video, well done, a shame only 168k have seen this

Would love for this to be an in depth series on how to help families reduce. Go to different house and show families

love the consept, just keep up the great work love you show keep me getting better to be better at beeing more "green"

Eye opening

All that organic stuff could be tuned into compost and fertiliser for farmers.

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.

I never waste food due to am to cheap to waste it.

Give to the homeless and poor people

I compost my waste and my garden loves it!

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.

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.

Where are the farms that let you get the food left behind? Any in NYC?

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.

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.

alot of the food from homes has probably spoiled if it's thrown out.

8.30 awesome lisa.

Makes me sad );

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.

Some can be used as compost in home gardens.