How To End The Food Waste Fiasco | Rob Greenfield | TEDxTeen

There are millions around the world who don’t know where their next meal will come from. Rob is on a mission to solve this problem. We can all easily be a part of the solution… and it starts with a dumpster.

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Rob is an adventurer, activist, and dude making a difference. His purpose is to inspire health, happiness, and freedom on Earth and he’s dedicated his life to this mission. He has cycled across the United States, twice, on a bamboo bicycle, went 1,000 days without showering, and has dove into thousands of dumpsters across America, all to inspire positive social and environmental change. When not out adventuring he lives off the grid in a fifty-square-foot tiny home in San Diego. His extreme adventures and activism campaigns may appear unattainable at first glance but within them are an abundance of simple lessons and tips that can be adapted into any life to live with more happiness, health, and freedom.

[cooldog]

Bruh can we just take time to thank this man for doing this. He is a HERO!

[marial.rapaglia]

SUPERMARKETS NEED TO CONTACT LOCAL NURSING HOMES & ASSISTED LIVING PLACES TO SEND PERISHABLE FOOD ITEMS LIKE FRUITS & VEGS IN GREAT QUANTITY OR LESS ON A DAILY OR WEEKLY BASIS FOR DISTRIBUTION AT THOSE FACILITIES THAT HIGHLY NEED IT, SINCE THE CHEFS NEED TO COOK LARGE AMOUNTS OF FOOD ON A DAILY BASIS FOR THE RESIDENTS & STAFF AS WELL, & DOING THIS IS A GREAT POSITIVE GOAL FOR EVERYONE !

[CB-dvrf]

The waste is revolting. U're awesome Rob.

[greatruaha]

I work for a food bank and we pick up food from supermarkets, bakeries, butchers.
Sadly we see that they bin a whole lot more food than they give us! Lots of the dumpsters are full of still good food!

[Leotique]

These videos should be shown at school and in the public...or at least the society should be better inform about food waste..

[jocelynwaters]

Awesome talk! I just posted on One of my local grocery stores Facebook homepage is requesting that they watch this Ted talk and asking them if they would be willing to be part of the solution. I’m going to do that with a few other grocery stores in my area. If enough people do it it will make a difference!

[herbinlegend]

Probably the best Ted talk I've ever seen, of hundreds...thanks Rob!
I'll take action here in the Midwest in your name. Thank you.

[CoyoteDis]

Thanks Rob for keeping the hope alive and showing we can fight for what's right.

[luguerino]

I have no words ..only thank you for a great work!! This world need people like you (sorry my English).

[alexemily]

Thank you so much for your speech, for spreading awareness, for believing and acting in alignment, for the inspiration and the motivation you give!😊

[wobblybobengland]

I used to work in a supermarket in England back in the eighties before Sunday shopping. My boss told me after he signed out at 5pm that I had to mark down the produce that was best before date was out before Monday but to a max of 15%. After a few weeks of then having to put the produce we didn't sell at 15% reduction in the skip (dumpster) after the store closed, I started to mark produce down to the point of half price and beyond. Word soon got around and after a while I was like the pied piper of Hamlyn with a posse of bargin chasing customers behind me, and I realised that this is all about profit because the stores know that customers will wait for someone like me who discounts too much, I carried on regardless and used to sort much of the stuff I should have thrown away to sell it to friends at a quarter of the face price, all the ingredients for full english breakfasts on a Sunday morning, we ate like Kings.

[davidevans]

Nice work Rob! It was great to hear your talk live in San Diego during your dry run and the TEDx turned out great.

[cance]

I graciously tip my hat to both Rob Greenfield and Selina Juul for CARING about Earth's natural environment and the future survival of our civilization.

[tylerwhitney]

Solidarity. My housemates just came home with dumpster score.

[Sticle]

This guy should be the next president of USA.

[petrinorgard]

Thanks for the great speech Rob!
I'm chocked of the amount of food we waste...

[ImpowerYou]

Great talk. I remember you at the San Diego Earth Fair last summer. I was volunteering so I didn't have time to grab some food, but my friend Kara did and she gave me some broccoli from your dumpster dive. :) Gracias.

[JonathanBloomWastedFood]

Well said, Rob! Wonderful words and images!

[tinahou]

Thanks for sharing. I will ask students to watch this as part of our first topic in new school year.

[abhijitdhamne]

You are a pure human, a human of future, great man god bless you, may each and every human should be like you.