Food for the bin: So much food is thrown away Quarks

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Published on Oct 16, 2021

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Every day we throw food in the trash, even though it is still edible. In supermarkets, too, a lot of food ends up in the container so that the display always looks fresh. But how can we ensure that less food ends up in the trash and what would that mean for the whole world? 00:00 Introduction 01:11 “Containering”: Food from the garbage can Lea and her friends have a special way of doing their weekly shopping. After the shops close, the three of them head out to the supermarket garbage cans to rescue food from the trash. This food is still perfectly edible, but according to the law, rescuing food from the containers is actually theft. 07:24 Food is not garbage in Müllheim In Müllheim on the Swiss border, unsightly or older food is not thrown away, but put on a shelf for people to take away. This food is also saved from the trash by being processed into smoothies, green food boxes for rodents or as donations to the food bank. 13:48 Which foods end up in the trash? Most people base their decision on bruises or the best-before date when sorting out and throwing away food. In private households, restaurants and the food industry, more than 18 million tonnes of food ends up in the trash every year. This also has consequences for the climate. 19:54 Young versus old: who wastes more food? Quarks compares the food waste of a student shared flat with that of a pensioner shared flat. To do this, the test groups document their food waste. Who wastes more food? And how do the groups react to the other groups' waste? 25:50 Experiment: Crooked food that does not meet the norm Regardless of whether the apple is too small or has a small flaw, food that does not meet the norm is sorted out by retailers. Rightly so? Would consumers still buy this food? Quarks does the test at the weekly market. 35:11 No food waste in Cologne The HDI insurance company's large kitchen in Cologne has been cooking sustainably for 21 years. There is an explicit focus on avoiding food waste. This also means that an animal is processed completely or that crooked fruit and vegetables are used to prepare the dishes. Here, even the leftover food on the employees' plates is used. 41:51 A world without food waste What impact would it have if less food was wasted in the world? Not only hunger, but also climate change could be avoided. If we didn't throw away any food on earth and only bought what we really need, the world would be a different place. Authors: Alexandra Hostert, Jakob Kneser, Florian Schneider --- Thanks for watching! Did you like the video? Then subscribe now to the only official Quarks channel on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/Quarks?sub_co... Also visit: https://www.quarks.de #Quarks on Instagram: / quarks.de / beautyquarks Quarks on Twitter: / quarkswdr Quarks on Facebook: / quarks.de Here you can find the clip in the WDR media library: https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/qua... #Quarks #Food #Waste

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