Amanda Cheung

I've been working on a social issue project about food waste and the amount of food that gets thrown out all the time. Did you know that in Canada alone, we throw out $27 BILLION worth of food EACH year?! 1/3 of food produced in the world for human consumption is thrown out every year, and according to research, those numbers are only rising.

I didn't really believe it until I saw it for myself. We live in such a culture of waste and overconsumption.

I've got to meet some really cool people who've made conscious decisions to reduce their impact of waste in the world. One of these decisions include dumpster diving. It's an intentional lifestyle and until I saw it, I didn't realize just how much good food gets wasted just because it's bruised or dented.

Today, I drove around to different dumpsters just to see what I'd find. I didn't really know what to expect but what I saw is pretty disturbing.

To quote one of the cool people I've met through this project, she says "world hunger is not a problem of quantity, it's a matter of distribution." Boy is she right.

This was all just from ONE place and on ONE day.