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I like this story<\/strong><\/a> and what these folks are doing, even if you won\u2019t find Kris and me diving anytime soon.<\/p>\n

A new documentary about food waste could dampen grocery chain\u00a0Trader Joe\u2019s<\/a>crunchy image.<\/p>\n
\u201cDive\u201d illustrates the waste of wholesome food by following a group of \u201cDumpster divers,\u201d people who mine trash bins for usable products. In the film, the divers are not homeless or even particularly poor; they just don\u2019t like to see good food go to waste, and they like to\u00a0 get stuff for free<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the United States, even our trash cans are filled with food; you just have to go get it,\u201d director Jeremy Seifert says during the film\u2019s opening sequence.<\/p>\n
The \u201cfreegan\u201d divers \u2013 Seifert, his wife, Jennifer, and a bunch of their friends \u2013 discover large quantities of fresh meat, vegetables and fruit in bins behind a couple of Trader Joe\u2019s stores in the Los Angeles area. Seifert is appalled that so much food that is not spoiled and not past its freshness date is being discarded.<\/p>\n
But Seifert says the target of his film is wastefulness, not Trader Joe\u2019s.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn our consumerism we\u2018ve become wasteful,\u201d he told CNN. \u201cAnd I try to bring it back on us because of the food waste in the home.\u201d<\/p>\n
A typical household of two adults and two children loses $600 in food per year through spoilage and mishandling, University of Arizona professor Timothy Jones estimates.<\/p>\n
Still, \u201cI don\u2019t get mad at people when they don\u2019t think about food waste, because I didn\u2019t think about food waste,\u201d said Seifert, 34, who holds a master\u2019s degree from Fuller Theological Seminary<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t think about food waste until I started eating trash.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I like this story and what these folks are doing, even if you won\u2019t find Kris and me diving anytime soon. A new documentary about food waste could dampen grocery chain\u00a0Trader Joe\u2019scrunchy image. \u201cDive\u201d illustrates the waste of wholesome food by following a group of \u201cDumpster divers,\u201d people who mine trash bins for usable products. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nFreegans<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I like this story and what these folks are doing, even if you won't find Kris and me diving anytime soon. 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