Tristram Stuart on life as a freegan

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 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 he found that foodstuffs 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.