“Wasted! The Story of Food Waste” aims to change the way people buy, cook, recycle, and eat food. Through the eyes of chef-heroes like Anthony Bourdain, Dan Barber, Mario Batali, Massimo Bottura, and Danny Bowien, audiences will see how the world’s most influential chefs make the most of every kind of food, transforming what most people consider scraps into incredible dishes that create a more secure food system.
“Wasted!” exposes the criminality of food waste and how it’s directly contributing to climate change and shows us how each of us can make small changes — all of them delicious — to solve one of the greatest problems of the 21st Century.
Can you imagine if every time you opened your wallet, a third of your cash fell out — and you did nothing about it? Consider the fact that one-third of the food grown annually for human consumption is never eaten. For one reason or another, it ends up in the garbage. In America, families chuck about 25% of the food and beverages they buy at a cost of $1,365 to $2,275 annually. Yet at the same time, 800 million people around the globe are starving. It’s a problem — but one with no shortage of solutions.
Zero Point Zero Films and Anthony Bourdain expose the magnitude of this problem globally, while showing simple changes we can all make to eat more and waste less. “Wasted!” shows how any action — no matter how small — can lead to new ways of using more food, feeding more people, curbing environmental damage, stimulating technology and business, and ultimately improving the health and well-being of all citizens worldwide.
The film premiere is part of the festival’s new “DOCtoberFest” series, which will feature six award-winning documentaries premiering over seven days.