Brief 5 -Food Waste

ROUGHLY ONE THIRD OF ALL THE FOOD PRODUCED GLOBALLY IS NOT EATEN. EVEN WORSE: MOST OF THAT DOESN’T EVEN REACH PEOPLE. THAT’S 1.3 BILLION TONNES and ONE TRILLION DOLLARS WORTH, AND YES, THAT’S Fucking SCANDALOUS.

Personal waste because ‘actually I just don’t fancy that anymore’, restaurant waste because ‘it was a slow night’, retail waste because of pointless, bullshit sell-by dates and slightly misshapen potatoes. Screw all that.

BRIEF 5 - make people aware of how much food they waste and get them to stop doing it.

John Oliver Tells it like it is

We waste more food than we realiZe.

Scientific American article on the vast climate implications of how we waste food. Not all GHGs are CO2.

10 minute read.

If you miss anthony bourdain as much as we do…

In the documentary Wasted, Antony Bourdain discovers the extent to which we waste food and some of the amazing people tackling the problem.