Tristram Stuart on freeganism, at 5x15

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Tristram Stuart on freeganism, at 5x15

15 Mar 2010

Speakers: Tristram Stuart

Tristram Stuart highlights the obscene amount of food wastage taking place every single day in developed countries. Describing his background, he explains his venture into the world of 'Freeganism' - the dedication to reducing your carbon footprint by eating food discarded by other people, recycling, and using your time to help others.

Stuart started practising freeganism whilst growing up on a farm, but it was only once at university that his eyes were truly opened to just how much food is discarded by supermarkets and other food vendors. This led him to investigate the supermarket supply chain and further, and he found that foodtuffs are unnecessarily binned in vast quantities all over the developed world – estimating that enough is wasted in affluent countries to feed the world's one billion poor and starving four times over. Explaining that it is not simply environmentally friendly to recycle consumables, Stuart declares that improved action makes moral, commercial and ecological sense as well.