Waste watcher
Campaigner Tristram Stuart has left no part of the food value chain unturned in his battle against food waste. He's now gunning for more.
TRISTRAM Stuart has a habit of poking into trash bins at supermarkets - not the small ones at the front but the big container-size receptacles usually hidden from public view, in stuffy rooms near the carpark. Once he gets his hands on one, he prods and rummages through all that has been thrown out into the bins, before carefully fishing out food that remains edible. He then brings his collection home and makes a delectable meal out of it. Once in a while, he even organises events that can feed up to 5,000 people, all with food that would have otherwise ended up in the landfill.
His point of doing all this? To prove that there is a lot of good food going unnecessarily to waste in our food system. And that if this continues, with food production increasing so as to f…
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