Reporter 1:
is doing what sounds like the impossible.
Reporter 2 and 3:
Reporter 4:
Reporter 5:
Reporter 6:
a very serious message.
Reporter 7:
Rob Greenfield:
We've got asparagus for days!
In America we throw away
almost half of all the food we produce
or about $165 billion worth.
Reporter 8:
to change all of that.
Rob:
I'm donating the last $421 I have
to "Food Shift" a nonprofit
that works on food waste
and I'm cycling from here to New York City
living 100% on food
that I find in dumpsters.
Reporter 9:
from at least 500 bins
and never gotten sick.
Rob:
that's not even past
its suggested sell-by date.
Reporter 8:
that's exactly what it is.
I'm shocked that this
all came from a dumpster.
Rob:
I went for a leisurely stop at a few
grocery store dumpsters
on the way here.
These are just the samples
I grabbed to show you guys.
One squished one,
the rest are good.
All this is food from dumpsters
that I found this morning and last night.
All of this perfectly good food
is in the dumpsters.
So this is 4 hours of collecting food
from your local grocery store dumpsters
and this is an everyday occurrence
in almost every city across America.
Grocery stores are throwing away
perfectly good food.
One of the biggest reasons that food
is thrown away is a misconception of liability
So grocery stores say:
"we can't donate the food
because we'll get sued
If someone gets sick."
They are protected by
the Good Samaritan Food Act
which waives liability
of grocery stores and restaurants
when they donate food to
nonprofits and food banks.
There's a lot of hungry Americans out there,
1 in 7 Americans is actually hungry
but we have enough food
to feed 2 entire Americas
so I'm telling grocery stores donate
the excess food to
nonprofits and food banks.
Don't throw it in the dumpster.
Tell your grocery stores,
to donate not dump.
Use the hashtag #DONATENOTDUMP and just
put a little pressure on grocery stores
and say, "Hey feed the hungry people,
not the dumpsters."
Reporter 10:
What inspired you to do this?
Rob:
not following social norms
and showing that you don't have to
do things the way everybody else does
to be a contributing member of society.
We have this idea that water
needs to be pouring down
from over our heads to get us clean but
there's just so many other ways to do it.
Reporter 11:
It's not a shed.
That is actually going to be
someone's home.
And News at 5 reporter
Joe Little took a tour
of the tiny home.
Rob:
Reporter 12:
Welcome to Rob Greenfield's new house.
Rob:
A little small but it will do just fine.
Reporter 12:
Rob:
solely for the purpose of making money
and having material possessions.
I decided, I want to live in a way
that's good for the earth
and I want my life to be
beneficial to everybody around me.
Reporter 7:
how much was just enough?
Rob:
fit on my bike actually.
I had a long-term goal
of being able to fit
all of my possessions on my bike
and the bike trailer.
Rob:
to how my actions affect the world.
with simple things
that we deal with
every day like food, water, energy
like turning on the electricity,
waste, and transportation.
The idea of being in this tiny home
is that I don't need to own
everything myself.
I can go to the library
if I want to read books.
I can go to the coffee shop.
But if I own everything
and I own a big house
I have no reason to share.
Reporter 13:
without any money
and you don't have any credit cards?
Rob:
this summer.
So I had debt for a while,
but I paid all that off.
Now I have zero debt.
I travel without a credit card
or a check book or a debit card.
Reporter 12:
Rob:
you don't actually need money
to live happy and healthy
or at least you don't need
nearly as much
as you think you do.
Reporter 7:
to look at this and say well
I can downsize move down to 50 sq ft.
but your message is well,
simplify a little bit.
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