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Lost Debate

Conversation with Dumpster Diver Matt Homewood

Lost Debate

The Branch

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.6607 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Ravi sits down with Matt Homewood, a dumper diver who is making it his mission to spread the word about the world's No. 1 solution to climate change: food waste. Born in the suburbs of west London, Matt started dumpster diving during a cross-country bike tour of the United States and later continued the trend while studying climate change in Denmark. Astonished by the sheer amount of perfectly suitable food heading to the landfill, Matt started an instagram account (@anurbanharvestor) to shed light on just how much supermarkets were tossing away. Matt and Ravi talk about what he’s learned about retail food waste and how our food system can become less wasteful. Subscribe to The Lost Debate’s YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/3Gs5YTF Sticher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-lost-debate iheart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-lost-debate-88330217/ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/752ca262-2801-466d-9654-2024de72bd1f/the-lost-debate LOST DEBATE ON SOCIAL: Follow Lost Debate Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lostdebate/ Follow Lost Debate on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lostdebate Follow Lost Debate on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thelostdebate

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0:00.0

The conversation around climate change is getting harder to ignore.

0:03.0

Deadly heat waves, wildfires destroying U.S. towns and Greek and Siberian forests,

0:08.0

Greenland's melting ice sheet, Germany's devastating floods.

0:12.0

The world is dangerously close to runaway global warming.

0:15.0

It's no longer a question of natural versus human-caused.

0:20.0

The report warns the only way to stop and reverse warming is to cut greenhouse gas emissions to zero.

0:27.6

While the task to decarbonize our economy and get off fossil fuels to lower emissions seems almost incomprehensibly complex,

0:35.6

one of the most effective solutions is something we interact

0:38.6

with every day.

0:41.4

Food waste.

0:42.4

Every single day, dumpsters all across Copenhagen were full of perfect food that had been shipped

0:48.4

in from across the planet.

0:50.3

That's why I want to introduce you to food waste campaigner Matt Holmwood.

0:53.3

10% of annual global greenhouse gas emissions come from food waste.

0:57.5

Supermarkets could end this tomorrow if they wanted to.

1:01.0

And so I'm calling on supermarkets to do the right thing and end this economic sham.

1:06.0

Start reducing those products, invest in their technologies available,

1:10.0

and let's sell that food to consumers,

1:11.6

because that's what they're in business to do.

1:14.6

In his work, Matt shares astonishing photos and videos of edible food waste found in the dumpsters around Copenhagen.

1:20.6

Matt recently presented at COP26 in Glasgow and is working tirelessly to change the systemic retail food waste problem. Well, Matt,

1:28.6

I saw your speech at COP super inspiring, but also infuriating. You had all these photos and videos

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