Dumpster Diving

I just finished a surprisingly fascinating documentary called Dive.
What was it about? Dumpster Diving.
I hadn't thought much about it before. And although I doubt I'd ever actually do it, I think the people that do have a good idea.
So much stuff is thrown away. Perfectly good stuff.
Grocery stores throw away bags of food all the time. Food that is completely edible. They throw food away before the sell-by date, or they trash a whole bag of fruit because one piece of it is starting to go bad.
the amount of waste is pretty disgusting.
With thousands of thousands of people not knowing where their next meal is coming from, or starving, we have dumpsters full of food which is in perfect shape.
Although many of these stores donate food to food banks, still a lot of food ends up in the garbage.
Dumpster divers go into the dumpsters and salvage this food. And the guy said he'd never once gotten sick from it.
When you think about how many resources go into making food, and how much some people need food, it's disgusting how much is wasted.
It's not just markets. Households waste a lot of food too. And restaurants. People throw away leftovers. People eat out and don't bring home whatever food is leftover.
I've been raised to not waste food. So I'm always surprised when I see how much is thrown away at restaurants, or in leftovers.
Please, don't waste food.

Food is not a luxury that can be wasted. It's a necessity for life. And we shouldn't waste what we have. But we shouldn't waste anything. Our society is built on waste. And we can't keep that up. Our world has limits.

It takes 7 pounds of corn and 2,500 gallons of water to get one pound of beef.
40% of the world's grain goes to feeding meat animals.
19% of our energy goes into making food.
We waste about 96 BILLION POUNDS of food every year, which is worth $136 billion.