Dumpster Diving with Rob Greenfield
I’m in Holdredge, Nebraska
outside of the local grocery store,
and all this food around me,
came from the trash.
One dumpster outside here
had enough food to feed me for the next
3 months and I would say this right here
what you see is probably about
maybe a 50th or 100th of the food there.
They could have fed at least 50 families
this weekend with the food in there.
Still good. Good healthy food too.
These bananas are even organic.
So, one thing I'm learning on this trip
is that we do not have a shortage of food
in the US, the only thing we have is a
distribution problem. The food is here,
we’re not giving it out in the right way.
Rob biked 4,700 miles in 104 days.
70% of his diet was found in dumpsters.
So I just pulled into Mount Vernon, Iowa
after a pretty long day of biking.
We’re 25 miles from Lincoln, Nebraska
where we'll spend the night.
Early morning in Jackson, California
we're about 1,500 feet up in the foothills
of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
So we’re at a grocery store here in Iowa
I'm just outside of Michigan City, Indiana.
This dumpster is a treasure chest!
Got some yogurt, bread, melons
This milk expired yesterday, bottled water
corn, watermelon, Naked juices
These eggs expired yesterday.
Some potatoes
and some oranges down there that are good
a couple of sandwiches and a bunch of salad
creamy Havarti cheese, still cold.
Still cold.
Mandarin spinach salad.
This is a spinach salad, chocolate milk
a bunch of cheese imported from Ireland,
just expired a few days ago.
Spain, shipped all the way from Spain
and ended up in a dumpster.
Some other stuff I probably won’t eat.
And I found this delicious trash bread.
Awesome, awesome trash bread
so it’s going to be a great night.
I’m definitely gonna bite into this ice cream.
America throws away $165 billion
of food every year.
More than 30% of food purchased
in the U.S. is thrown out.
Now, that is just an absurd amount.
I don’t know the exact answer to the problem,
but I know there are solutions.
And if we work on it,
this is America, the
"greatest country in the world" (sarcasm).
If we work on it, we can figure something out.
Be a part of the solution!
Don’t waste food. Support local farmers.
Avoid industrial farming.
Eat less meat and more plants.
Talk to your local markets and restaurants.
Work with a waste diversion program or
start your own.
Educate yourself and spread the word.
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